Hello,
Why i can't see Southwest Airlines flights (via network) when i put WN* or *SW in the smartview setup?
How i can add Frontier airline logo's when they are using only numbers like 126, 777, 229?
Best regards,
Triple777
Hi Triple777
Logos are worked out from the first three letters of the Flight ID, so as SouthWest don't broadcast these letters, the logo can't be worked out, and why WN* won't pick them up at all. As for *SW, I gess RB doesn't like a wildcard in front of a character string, but I haven't tried it myself yet.
That's also why it's virtually impossible to display logos for just numeric ID's - anyone's aircraft could broadcast an ID of 126 or 229.
Development are aware of the problem, but don't expect a quick fix.
Sorry that doesn't help - complain to the airlines!
Rod
Hello Rod,
Thanks for the reply and it works fine for the Frontier airplanes, i putted *0FR, *1FR, *2FR => *9FR in the smartview setup.
best regards
Triple777
Excellent - glad it worked - now we just have to get logos displayed for them - they are there, waiting in the Logos folder!
Rod
This gets better - I see that SmartView takes a wildcard anywhere - so that N*FE is showing all the FedEx flights - very useful.
Rod
Maybe that 'Wild Card'(N*FE) tip should be added to a FAQ page. Before that tip gets lost on the forum.
Just to summarise this in case anyone's confused:
In SmartView, to watch a fleet, we would usually use, to take UPS as another example, UPS* to capture all flight ID's starting UPS, whatever the registration of the aircraft
But some UPS flights don't have UPS as the frist three letters of the Flight ID, so using N*UP will find aircraft that have the 'standard" UPS N-number registration, whatever the flight ID.
This should capture pretty much all UPS flights, but still isn't guaranteed 100%, as some UPS flights will use a "wrong" flight ID AND have a "wrong" registration.
Rod
Quote from: RodBearden on June 04, 2009, 09:14:55 AM
But some UPS flights don't have UPS as the frist three letters of the Flight ID, so using N*UP will find aircraft that have the 'standard" UPS N-number registration, whatever the flight ID.
Bear in mind that you will also get some false positives, like FA50 N200UP of UPC Aviation Services which was around a couple of days ago, since UPS don't have the monopoly on N*UP registrations.
Dave
Agreed but it at least gives us a few to sort through rather than either nothing or hundreds