Missing registration on X-Plane vFlyteAir Arrow

[Corsac 0]

Hi,

I'm using the vFlyteAir PA-28R Arrow III with X-Plane. The registration displayed in LittleNavmap is wrong, it's the default/generic one for the aircraft .acf model and not the one associated with the livery. The registration seems dynamically changed using LUA, so maybe that confuses LittleNavmap. Unfortunately that means I have a duplicate when flying online on IVAO. Is there something that can be done here?

[albar965 1,040]

X-Plane has no registrations per livery. There is only the one in the acf. Some use the registration as the name for the livery folder but that is not common.

Alex

[Corsac 0]

Well it looks like (at least for vFlyteAir aircrafts) the registration is dynamically changed (with LUA) when a livery is loaded, with a code like:

    -- TailNumber --
    -- Set the Tail Number based in index of livery initially loaded for ATC
    -- This only works on initial load of aircraft
    if cl_LiveryIndex_last ~= cl_LiveryIndex then
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 0 then
            cl_TailNum  = "N000PA"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 1 then
            cl_TailNum  = "N1089Q"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 2 then
            cl_TailNum  = "N47455"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 3 then
            cl_TailNum  = "N1927H"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 4 then
            cl_TailNum  = "C-GQYI"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 5 then
            cl_TailNum  = "G-IRKB"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 6 then
            cl_TailNum  = "N9350K"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 7 then
            cl_TailNum  = "N6995C"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 8 then
            cl_TailNum  = "N44961"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 9 then
            cl_TailNum  = "N43988"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 10 then
            cl_TailNum  = "OH-PEA"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 11 then
            cl_TailNum  = "F-GEOQ"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 12 then
            cl_TailNum  = "D-EMRY"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 13 then
            cl_TailNum  = "F-GJCB"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 14 then
            cl_TailNum  = "G-BNSG"
        end
        if cl_LiveryIndex == 15 then
            cl_TailNum  = "G-OBAK"
        end
    end

So maybe there's some kind of race condition here, with LNM getting the registration from X-Plane *before* the livery is loaded and thus having the “generic” tail number.

[albar965 1,040]

I read the reg from the "sim/aircraft/view/acf_tailnum" dataref. Is that the one they are changing in the Lua script?
The dataref is read permanently by Xpconnect. So LNM should catch all changes.

Looking closer at the code it seems that I overwrite this value with "acf/_tailnum" from the .acf file.

Have to check. Looks like something is wrong there.

Thanks for reporting

Alex

 

[Corsac 0]

Hi Alex, any news on this?

[albar965 1,040]

1 hour ago, Corsac said:

Hi Alex, any news on this?

Yes. Fixed here and will be released with the next 2.4.

But this will not be soon. I expect 2+ months.

Alex