[ACARS] Flight No's

[Bart Hoekstra]

Hello list,

I don't think they're misreads. They where used by Airbus A340 F-WWCB on HF
(thanks PC-HFDL) recently. I received several myself, as did others. Here's
a quote from a message from me sent a week agoL

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Here's another, more interesting log. Airbus A340-600 (an aircraft flown by
the Airbus company). Looks like a "normal" VHF ACARS message. This is on
11384 (Shannon). Apperantly the flightnumber was AP0172. It appeared with a
position report as F172 at 43.38.8N 1.22.13E .

 2.F-WWCB H11 C07AAP0172#CFB.1/WRN/WN0203070904  732102502MAINTENANCE STATUS
 EEC 3A  L

Later on the day I logged it again, with another flightnr, AAP371F. This one
was listed as '3F1F17' LFMI = Istres, LFBO = Toulouse.

 2.F-WWCB H12 C93AAP371F#CFB.1/WRN/WN0203071520  732103509
 2.F-WWCB 801 M07AAP371F1201 ONRP   371F/   LFMI/LFBO .F-WWCB  /ON
 1519/FOB ----

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> Hi John,
>
> These are fairly typical mis-decodes of flight numbers.  At a guess you
> are using Airmaster 3 or 2000.  I analyse my logs with Dacars 2.5(b)
> and, when I see these errors, always just delete them from the Dacars
> output text file.  You should be able to work out what airline it is
> from the registrations which you have not supplied in your email.
>
> > 371F17
> > 371F18
> > 371V17