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Custom registrations

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8 hours ago, Alvega said:

Thanks Bert. Does the ATC call you by the correct registration when using this method? I will try when I have some time.

Nope.. There are two fields on the Configure screen:  Tail number and ATC number.

The first one seems to be the only thing that has any influence.  The ATC number field does not work.. at least not for me.

Edited by Bert Pieke

Bert

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5 hours ago, fppilot said:

I was chasing my tail because I am not on the beta(S). Prior to yesterday the last previous mention of betas in this topic was back on January 27th, and I missed that as I came in much later.  My bad.

Hi Frank, this may or may not work if you are not on the beta, however, if you have a favorite custom livery that you like to fly, and you find that the sim insists on plastering a registration over top of the painted one, it would be easy to try to fill in the tail number field on the Configure/Identification screen and see what happens.  Alt+255, enter creates an invisible registration that does not interfere with the external look of the plane.  ATC does not have a tail number for you at that point, so if that would bother you, this is not the way forward.. 

Bert

5 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

Hi Frank

Thanks Bert. I spent too many hours trying this and that based on topics from three sources.  All to no avail.  The liveries I am attempting to work with have no painted numbers.  All work perfectly in 2020 with appropriate edits to the respective liveries aircraft.cfg files, but 2024 is having none of it, even with the handful of tips here and elsewhere. Once again I am not participating in the SU beta. 

Like some other missing features and characteristics, I just have to wait this out.  I've gone back to 2020 for about 60% of my flights due to some aircraft beta testing (all still 2020 development), lack of traffic, lack of compatibility of some of my favored aircraft.

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As of SU2 beta they seemed to have fix this issue!

As long as the Tail Number line is blank in the sim, there will be no dynamic reg visible on the paint!

But on aircraft that support dynamic reg you can simply type whatever you want and it seems to show!  

I tested on a few different addons like black square, carenado, FSR M500 etc

edit: Oh a note, you MUST remove any NUL or NBSP (special characters) in any liveries (aircraft.cfg ATC ID entry) otherwise the sim will CTD.

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15 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

edit: Oh a note, you MUST remove any NUL or NBSP (special characters) in any liveries (aircraft.cfg ATC ID entry) otherwise the sim will CTD.

That is good to know! 🙂

Bert

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16 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

As of SU2 beta they seemed to have fix this issue!

As long as the Tail Number line is blank in the sim, there will be no dynamic reg visible on the paint!

 

Does ATC still have a tail number for you?   ie  Does the second line in the Configuration menu work now?

Bert

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