Boeing 777

This is not a feature request but an inquisition.
I saw this Livery after PSG won the champions League

The Aircraft is Boeing 777-3DZ/ER

As someone who knows next to nothing about Aircraft types, is the Craft in the game? What exactly does the “3DZ” mean?

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-DZ is the Boeing customer code for Qatar Airways. Find out more about these here:

Hence a 777-200LR purchased by Qatar Airways will be listed as 777-2DZ(LR), and so forth.

As of the Boeing 787, these customer codes have since been scrapped and replaced instead with a single/double-digit variant identifier universal to all operators.

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It’s just a special code, exclusively used by Qatar Airways.
If I remember correctly. :thinking:

As weird as it seems, 747-8s did have the code. For example, Lufthansa’s 747-8s are 747-830s.

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Interesting, but noted and corrected.

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This effectively means no hope for a feature request then?

For the reason of it being a special livery, it’s against the Features category rule to make it a request, but since the base aircraft is the 777-300er, we already have that in game. A lot of the planes in game have different codes then how they are represented. For example: the JetBlue a320-200s in game are all actually JetBlue a320-232s, but that is just a special configuration/code JetBlue has, it’s not its own airplane.

Nope. The A320-232 simply refers to an A320ceo with IAE V2527-A5 engines - which are found all over the world with loads of operators. Airbus suffixes work differently in that the second number after the dash denotes the engine manufacturer, and the third number indicates the specific engine type used by the aircraft.

For the full list of manufacturer codes see here.

So in this sense, yes, the A320-232 is its “own airplane” in that it is distinct from, say, an A320-214 with CFM56-5B4/3 engines; but not in that it is a variant owned only by one specific airline like JetBlue.

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That isn’t what I meant lol. It’s still an a320 CEO at the end of the day. In most aspects it is at least, but it’s not the same in detail.

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Yes,

I was referring to when you said how the -232 was “just a special configuration/code JetBlue has” - Airbus engine codes are not customer specific.

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Yes, but the airline chose to purchase that. I don’t mean they created it or anything.