Simviation Forum - How does ATC call regional partners?

Jun 5^th, 2006 at 4:49pm

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Hi all.
I am in the process of "tweaking" all of my AI and AFCADS to the specs set by PAI and make them more realistic. My question is: what callsign/airline name does ATC use to call regional partners of a specific airline in real life?
For example, if a particular flight is airline ABC operated by XYZ, does ATC call that aircraft by ABC or XYZ in real life?
I hope that made sense. Thanks in advace,
Ben.

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Reply #1 - Jun 5^th, 2006 at 5:43pm

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Yes they do. If your airline is say Northwest, and you are flying a Messaba connection flight, your flight should be refered to as Messaba XX. That said there is a problem with this in FS9.

Some of the major airlines are included wwith the sim but many others, including regionals, are not. To fix that problem you will have to add them to your sim. I believe there are voicepacks here that will do that for you but I am not too sure. I do know that there are plenty of others here who do know and will be more than happy to help you out.

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Reply #2 - Jun 5^th, 2006 at 7:24pm

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Whatever is indicated here:

atc_airline=Pasco
atc_airline=SPEED BIRD

The spelling must be correct

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Reply #3 - Jun 5^th, 2006 at 11:28pm

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Thanks for the help guys.
I have spent some time accumulting callsigns and now have a rather extensive voice pack and airlines.cfg file thanks to EditVoicePack. Grin

I can work around and fix my ATC glitches rather well (and there are many). I just wanted to know how it was done in real life just so I could get my AI just a bit more realistic. I think that question was answered.

Now back to the never ending stuggle and addiction known as AI traffic. Wink

Thanks again. Wink

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Reply #4 - Jun 6^th, 2006 at 12:03am

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Cool. EditVoicePack rules. Don't leave home without it. Any Airport Names you have with my name on them 'wji' were submitted by me Cheesy

Remember this part, though:
"F or R
‘F’ in this field specifies that if the aircraft is associated with an airline then the airline name and flight number are to be used for an ATC call sign (e.g. "Landmark 1213"). ‘R’ forces the aircraft registration (tail number) to be used as a call sign even for airlines. All stock flight plans use the ‘F’ setting to allow airline flight number call signs."

Reference cited: TTools Readme.

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Reply #5 - Jun 6^th, 2006 at 2:40pm

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Remember this part, though:
"F or R
‘F’ in this field specifies that if the aircraft is associated with an airline then the airline name and flight number are to be used for an ATC call sign (e.g. "Landmark 1213"). ‘R’ forces the aircraft registration (tail number) to be used as a call sign even for airlines. All stock flight plans use the ‘F’ setting to allow airline flight number call signs."

Reference cited: TTools Readme.

Yeah. Since I use UT for most of my AI, this little tidbit has only come back to bite me only once and that was for a flight plan I created manually. Tongue

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