Hi,
I just changed the callsign airbavaria which i had used for ages now. It was always nicely pronounced by the voice engine. But as i wanted to change back to the system wouldnt allow it anymore. It has now this 8 character restriction and even if i put only “bavaria” it would change instantly in capital letter and therfore pronounce it with the individual letters.
I want my my call sign back, please.
Any idea how i could achieve this?
Yea this was IF solution to the inappropriate call sign, which in my opinion was stupid they could employ users to protect the servers when no ATC. Like yesterday i was on advanced and heard " Papa, papa, papa, papa, papa, papa, papa, papa." just spammed the frequency while if it wasn’t changed it would’ve been “pppppppp.”
it made me hungry “papa johns”
How about changing it to a three letter unique call sign like a real airline? Example Qantas are QVA, British Airways use BAW. You could use ’ ABV 1234 'for Air Bavaria? ( you can use own numbers of course!)
We can all thank the trolls who thought it was funny to make sophomoric, offensive, or various inappropriate call signs. Common sense was surprisingly uncommon with more folks than expected. The system isn’t perfect, but it solved most of the problem. There’s some casualties unfortunately. It’ll get better. It always does. :)
Nope. It doesn’t matter what server. The same things happen. The efforts required to maintain the alternatives are too high. We thought of all the angles already, and the current system turns out to work best.
It’s ok, it’s ok. Sorry, didn’t want to stir up things too much here. I totally understand what was driving that change and it’s absolutely ok. Was more meant as a technical question. So answer is no… Accepted. No problem.
iF team please keep doing what you are doing with this fantastic sim. You brought me back into simming after years and I really enjoy it.
personally think that would be best if call signs could only be selected with either an Specific Airline / 4 numbers and a Heavy or Super if allowed, or if using GA set up so it can only be done in a similar format to a real Reg number. That would stop in appropriate ones, silly ones as well as people arguing about using a specific one which they have ‘copywritted’.
I think in the VatSim world you can only select Callsigns which relate to real ones.
That’s what the new system does automatically. It’s very impractical to have people do that. It would be a poor use of time. We know it’s not perfect, and it’ll see improvements as things evolve, but it is what it is for now.