Assigning Company Logos to Mode S

[Steve R]

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to assign a company logo for an aircraft that does NOT transmit its flight ID etc.

An example being the Met Police Helicopter, registration G-MPSB. The aircraft transmits Mode-S signal but does not transmit any flight ID or any info to be plotted on the map.

What I would like to do is include say a Met Police logo that can be displayed in the company logo display column when the Mode-S signal is recieved from this aircraft.

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If this is not currently possible, could this be a request to ask for if it is possbile to do, in up-coming software/hardware versions.

Many thanks,

Steve

[RodBearden]

Hi Steve

I believe that the AirNav philosophy is that because a particular airframe may be used by different operators (on leases, etc) that linking a logo to a Mode-S code would not be a good idea, because most of us would rather see who the aircraft is flying for on the particular flight. I agree with you though, that it does leave some gaps.

Perhaps a fallback where, if there is no Flight ID, the Mode-S code could be used, might be possible in the future.

Rod

[AirNav Support]

As Rod says its not possible to link the company logo like that and the reasons why.

However if you know Mode-S code you can link it to a specfic country image if I am not mistaken. Hence you could create a country image just for that Met Police.

[Steve R]

Cheers AirNav Support,

My next question is (you can see this one coming, lol) How do I do what you mentioned above linking the Mode-S code to a specific country image.

(I've only had my RadarBox for just over a week, so still learning)

Cheers,

Steve

[RodBearden]

Steve - if you look in the help system, in the Advanced Users section, there is a chapter on setting special country flags.

Let us know how you get on - have fun!

Rod

[Steve R]

Ok will do cheers Rod

Steve

[Allocator]

It's in the FAQ too:

http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=645.0

It talks about military flags, but these can be any flags or flag "logos" allocated to an individual Mode S code or a group of codes.