[ACARS] Odd messages

[Andreas Schmidt]

Hello,

> Can anyone help identify these: seem to be genuine messages: one suggests 
> Berlin as destination, and 'AB' in the text. Air Berlin?
> 
> Oddly he seems to get a reply! Note that AirNav seems to ignore these. Data 
> is from an Airmaster V3 log
> 
> Example one - clean. Is this flight number AB3547 perhaps? And perhaps 
> D-ABxx on station 'T' with message type 'Q0' with block id '8' message no 
> 'S17A
> If so what happened to the other characters!?
> ACARS mode:    Aircraft reg:  G.D-AB
> Message label: T   Block id: Q  Msg. no: 8 S0
> Flight id: 7AAB35
> Message content:-
> 47
> -----------------------------------------------------------[30/11/2002 
> 12:14]

Well, it seems that your software doesn't understand these uplinks. 
The message should read

ACARS mode: G  
Aircraft reg:  .D-ABTQ 
Message label: 8
Block id: SO
Msg. no: 7A
Flight id: AB3547 
Message content:-

Same procedure with the other ones.

Best regards, Andreas


Andreas Schmidt
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