This is driving me bonkers and I cannot get the various fixes I've read to work.

For example, with the Asobo Cessna 152 I've downloaded repaints where the painter permanently painted the registration and the Asobo "dynamic" registration doesn't appear, and on other repaints (like N1787Q, a very sharp livery) the Asobo registration comes shining through no matter what?

What is/are the secret(s) of what needs to be changed in the aircraft.cfg (or elsewhere?) to hide Asobo's dynamic registrations completely?

Thanks,

Steve

39 minutes ago, Republic DC9 said:

...what needs to be changed in the aircraft.cfg (or elsewhere?) to hide Asobo's dynamic registrations completely?

Thanks,

Steve

Find this line and set the option to 0 (zero):

atc_id_enable = 1 ; enable tail number

7 minutes ago, Stoopy said:

Find this line and set the option to 0 (zero):

atc_id_enable = 1 ; enable tail number

Thank you!

Steve

Sadly that didn't work, at least on a few repaints?

Any other ideas?

I see liveries where painters successfully eliminate the default regs, so it must be possible?

Steve

This is how I took care of it with a livery that I changed the painted tailnumber to my liking. The "-" shows too but it was required to get it to work.

 

atc_id = "-" ; tail number
atc_id_enable = 1 ; enable tail number
atc_airline = "Cirrus" ; airline name
icao_airline = ""
atc_flight_number = "N196CF" ; flight number

Leave the ATC info blank in game then it will use the flight number of the aircraft.cfg and sound just the same as if it was a tail number. This was the only way I could get it to work.

 

I posted about how I did it back a while at https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/remove-tail-number-without-breaking-atc/271307

Edited December 29, 20205 yr by Phantoms
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Thanks Phantoms...I found this fix today and tried it, worked great and no “-“.

I pasted the text from this BilingualHarp fellow below, these are the steps I followed -

 

BilingualHarp7Tech Alpha Insider

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I find the following works for me where I have baked the aircraft registration into the texture to get a specific font style, font colour or registration position.

Edit the aircraft.cfg

Change the atc_id line to read as shown below, ie with blank characters between the quotes

atc_id = " " ; tail number

Change the atc_arline line to read as shown below. ie with a comma between the quotes,

atc_airline = “,” ; airline name

Change the atc_flight_no line to include your aircraft registration as shown below.

atc_flight_number = “OE-FSG” ; flight number

This works reliably on my system where I have the registration in the texture, preventing the default registration appearing on the fuselage, while ATC uses the correct aircraft registation for communications.

Note - that people using the repaints can’t have any value in the registration under the ATC options when selecting an aircraft. As MSFS remembers this, it needs to be removed.

You can access the blank character by pressing windows+R and search for charmap. Select and copy the blank chararcter and paste it inbetween your quotes. Blank character tip thanks to vanfipe who does some Brasilian repaints on flightsim.to.

Edit - have updated post as I found the space in the atc_id line I mentioned originally would occassionly cause MSFS freezes. The blank character appears more reliable.

Back when I was trying, I tried the blank space " " like your post and it caused problems for me, so I went back to the "-" to get it working.

 

Glad it's working for you.

You can use a no-break space or a soft hyphen to create a blank.  Simply type  Alt+0160  into   atc_id =" "