Airline Logos and Country Flags

[daniel smith 877264]

Hello,

 

Firstly Well Done.

 

Is there a way in the persons "route Info" to see the Airline Logo and Country Flag like in Serv Info?

 

Regards,

 

Daniel.

[Michal Rok]

Country flags for registrations are already in place. If they don't show up for a particular country please email me the country name and the registration prefix.

 

Airline logos will be in place in the next major release. I didn't want to follow the SI way where after a few months the only thing Michael was doing was manually updating all the world's virtual airlines . I have a better way to do it but it requires some programming work first.

 

 

Michal

[daniel smith 877264]

Thanks for the quick reply! Australia we are not permitted to put "VH-XXX" by the vatpac division. it is now just "VHXXX" with out the dash. If you can fix that, it would be awsome. Again thanks for your hard work!

 

Daniel.

[Michal Rok]

Done.

 

 

Michal

[daniel smith 877264]

I noticed..... If only we could get customer service like that everywhere!!!!!!! Thanks again

[Robbie Close 936559]

Daniel, you are actually incorrect both are exceptable, VHXXX is only encouraged.

[Brian Beach 915973]

I am a novice programmer, so please don't yell at me.

 

Actually, it appears that adding airline logos don't need to be a part of a major release, they would be placed in the status window (which, I believe, is updated centrally). I understand that it would take a while (and I know you have a ton of feedback because it is a new release), but adding a submission form to the website to update logos seems relatively simple.

[Mark Richards]

Michal

 

While adding New Zealand is ZKxxx, no hyphen either.

 

Papua New Guinea is P2xxx, also no hyphen

 

Mark

[Paul O'Donnell 969350]

Singapore is 9V

Malaysia is 9M

 

Would it be possible for vroute to recognise all domestic callsigns with and without the hyphen? I prefer not to use the hyphen as its more realistic on the scope for the controllers. But there's always some pilots flying with the hyphen.

I noticed today that the country flag did not appear for a UK callsign without the hyphen.

 

thanks in advance Michal.

[Michal Rok]

All 4 (Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea) added.

 

Unfortunately the option of not requiring a hyphen ("-") is hard to achieve. This is because prefixes are different length - some countries have one and some have two letters. I use the hyphen to split the registration into the country prefix and the rest. In Poland we use SP-*** and i've never seen a notation without the hyphen.

 

The option of permitting a flag upload is opening a whole set of problems. For example, I recall serious fights between two Polish VAs on who has the right to use LOT callsign and which airline should the link point to. I have a better idea so please let me do it my way - and don't expect me to disclose any details before it's ready.

 

 

 

Michal

[Paul O'Donnell 969350]

Thanks very much Mikal. Your hard work and effort is truely appreciated.

[Luiz Fellipe Carneiro 9843]

Can't you use regular expressions to make this?

For example /^P[PTR]*-.../ will match Brazil registrations (PP-XXX, PT-XXX, PR-XXX, with and without the hyphen)

I know this works in Perl, some other languages support too, but dont know the one you are using.

 

Anyway, congratulations!!! Wonderful software! And if I can help, just ask. I know PERL, ASP and SQL languages.

[Vince Horan]

I haven't checked out how intelligent Vroute is in regard to differentiating between an airline style callsign (ICAO XXXnnnn format) and a country registration callsign. I know novice pilots do not help by having unrealistic callsigns. However, Michal if you need help identifying country registration formats, I am your man! Generally if a callsign is all alphabetic it is most likely to be a registration callsign, there are only a few where it is a single letter country being C, D, F, G, I and N, otherwise it is two. N will be followed by 1 to 5 numerics with 0-2 alphabetic (up to a maximum of 6 - no leading zero, no I or letter O), others would be all alphabetic. C is an interesting one, F, G and I in 2nd place would be Canada, anything else would be a different country eg. CP=Bolivia but numeric, CS=Portugal, CU=Cuba but numeric.

 

I wont waste any further forum space on other examples, but I have the info if you need it Michal.

[Michal Rok]

I've just coded it the following way, to keep it reasonably simple and still reasonably accurate:

 

- N + a digit + anything later on = USA

- F, G, I, D, C plus 4 letters - France, UK, Italy, Germany or Canada, respecitvely

- anything where two letters or digits of a country code are followed by 3 letters - use the map as the first two characters indicate

- finally, just split by hyphen.

 

This way, N489A, DADDY and D-ADDY, PHAZY etc. will work. However, LOT375 won't be decoded as country=LO because there are digits, and SE123 won't be Sweden.

 

 

Michal

[Tim Krajcar]

This chart may be of [Mod - Happy Thoughts]istance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Registration

[Michal Rok]

Well, it is a very useful resource but i'm not sure if I plan to spend that much time trying to fix it. It's not complete either - in Poland, registrations SP-1234 are also used (for gliders). And finally, people on VATSIM don't stick to real life standards so closely, so rejecting an SP-something just because it contains two letters and a number would be too much.

 

 

thx anyway.

 

 

Michal