[Acars] Re: REPLY:- Air France & Acars

[KEITH D]

In message <005101c45b96$c469b320$b1385dd5 at arnhem.chello.nl>, Hans Biere 
<s.biere at chello.nl> writes
>> Its happening with others also
>>
>> BAW has been around for several months now
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>OK. I agree with that. But..........................................!
>
>BAW European flight id's are like BA0441 or BAW441. Also: after "BA" comes a
>"0" or a "W" and then the flight id "441". So it is verry simple to make a
>copy of your BA0... database to a BAW... database I think and you have no
>problem with this situation.

Hi Again

OK this sadly does not work it does with some but not all

first these BAW are mostly from HI messages
when the aircraft system reverts to other message id's
you get BA????

here's the effect of putting change BAW to BA0 into acarsd
translation table

G-BNLA  B747-436        0501 20040626 BA0028   (VHHH-EGLL)
G-DOCE  B737-436        1147 20040626 BA0028   (VHHH-EGLL)
G-DOCS  B737-436        0918 20040626 BA0032   (VHHH-EGLL)
G-CIVN  B747-436        0545 20040626 BA0032   (VHHH-EGLL)


BA don't use 737-400's on the long haul
the acars terminal in the aircraft only handles 6 digits

BA European flight are like 0441

maybe from EGLL
but all Gatwick flights are BA2???

so you will see BAW227  instead of BA2271

I have been having this for about 3 months now
the only way out here is to enter these flights into the acarsd CSV 
translation table
for instance

change BAW224  to  BA224?

in other words change it to the correct flight number assuming you are 
ware what it is I am getting them slowly from within the acars message 
area

also you may not have these yet
but BA has a very large alpha numeric system which is now starting to 
come into play

I have had 8 here today so far

not sure about ANAD 2 but ANAD 1  and AN4 wont handle
alpha numeric
the programme wont enter the flight number in the flight list grid
just leaves it blank in AN4

puts it in left window OK but that window does not do flight routes
translations

cheers for now

Keith D.

>
>The AFR system of using flight id's is totally different from the BAW
>system. Also there is, as far I can see, no solution for this problem.
>
>Kind regards, Hans Biere
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Keith D.