I came across an awesome tool on flightsim.to by mccarl1978: https://de.flightsim.to/d/mccarl1978/model-matching-magic just yesterday after wasting couple hours by hand creating a .vmr file for AIG and MSFS.

This tool allows to create an individual .vmr file which fits perfectly to the actual installed AIG Models and Liveries and you probably can create the most accurate vmr file so far.

 

Everything worked fine so far with all relevant models, but the Triple Seven however is a little more challenging (except B778 and B779)...

In real life, the older T7s have got the following models and the following type designators, as per https://www.icao.int/publications/DOC8643/Pages/Search.aspx

• B772 -> 777-200
• B772 -> 777-200ER
• B77L -> 777-200LR
• B773 -> 777-300
• B77W -> 777-300ER
• B77L -> 777-200F

In the "Aircraft Types" tab, you can assign Type Designators to a Match Rule.

For this six 777 variants, I did it as per this two screenshots:

 

Now I'm having the issue of 777-300ER being mislabeled as B773 instead of B77W, 777-200 and 777-200ER mislabeled as B77L instead of B772.

777-300 is correctly labeled as B773, 777-200LR is correctly labeled as B77L and the 777-200F is correctly labeled as B77L.

I've also tried deleting the duplicate B77L and B772 entries showing in the second screenshot and adding it to the first B77L entry like B77L...Boeing...20...jet...(?i)(?=.*boeing)(?=.*777-200LR)(?=.*777-200F) but nothing has changed.

And four CRJ-550 models don't get assigned an aircraft type either:

 

 

Couldn't find and manual for this wonderful program in order to find out what exactly each punctuation mark in the aircraft types tab mean.... (?i)(?=.*boeing)(?=.*777-200LR)(?=.*777-200F)...?

Can't wrap my head around of how to get the 777s right.

What am I doing wrong here?

Edited November 17, 20214 yr by Konterhalbe

Not sure if you've worked this out, but the scanning is using Regex which sucks, but is useful. Basically, the Match Rules you added are configured to say 'this string appears, and NOTHING APPEARS AFTER IT'

In contrast, see the below;

(?i)(?=.*boeing)(?=.*777-3(00)?)

Two things to note:

1. By putting the 00 in brackets, it makes it optional, so 777-3 and 77-300 will both match.
2. Adding the ? AFTER the aircraft type allows it to check for the string ANYWHERE in the source description, not just at the end.

A few well crafted rules and this tool is the dogs... bits!

Good luck!

I've already worked this out by correcting every wrong 777 line by hand 😅

Took me ten minutes to had it all right ngl about that but I'll implement your notes the next time I'm about to make changes in my .vmr file 👍

Thank you very much for your answer @JayGee