[ok] Auto-registration enhancement

[Cardinal]

The auto-registration of new planes is nice, if you are anywhere but the US or the handful of other countries that use a suffix on the registration. Typically an airline uses the same suffix for all or most of their planes (N100AA, N101AA, etc). Since the registration system already enforces the format, would it be possible for the auto-registration to retain the suffix and just increment the numbers for countries that use a prefix-number-suffix format?
So instead of this:
N100AA, N100AB, N100AC

It would do this:
N100AA, N101AA, N102AA

[Sami]

It has to be either of those two, but not both. Currently I've chosen it to increase the letters but it can be changed if people 'vote' for it.

[alexgv1]

Vote to prefer number change in USA.

[RushmoreAir]

Also prefer number change.

[flightsimer]

I askEd for this two months ago and it was ignored...

But I will +1 it in here...

[hmellouli]

it would be awesome if this feature got implemented. maybe there would be a drop down menu that asks if you have a suffix or not.

i use this wether I'm based in the USA or Europe. for now I do it manually, and the way i do it - First Letter or number is my fleet code, middle characters are the sequential numbers, and the last two characters are my airline code. in MT8 I'm in Europe, so it goes D-AAME, D-ABME, and so on for one fleet, and the second fleet type it would be D-BAME, D-BBME, and so on. in the US, it is sort of the same, N101ME, N102ME, N201ME, N202ME, and so on.

sorry for over explaining, just wanted to be clear, that's all!

[Jona L.]

Well, to complicate issues, I'd like to increase the detail on the fleet groups...

i.e. the A330/340 fleet covers 6 (8 if you count the HGW extra) sub-fleets... each has their own registration for me (A332 is N332AA... A343 is N343AA...).

Otherwise I am happy with the letters thus far. However I can adjust to number changes as well...

VOTE AGAINST NUMBER CHANGE in the end though... like the overview-ability for my fleets

cheers,
[SC] Jona L.

[EsquireFlyer]

I also vote for number change for USA registrations.

[Mr.HP]

I want to add something more to the auto-registration feature

When we got an A/C returned from lease, it don't get auto-reg. It's a nightmare when a big customer goes down, and I have to manually put in reg number for like 20 A/C. Each time require a page refresh, would just so annoying

So please add auto-reg for returned leased A/C

[Monica]

I want to add something more to the auto-registration feature

When we got an A/C returned from lease, it don't get auto-reg. It's a nightmare when a big customer goes down, and I have to manually put in reg number for like 20 A/C. Each time require a page refresh, would just so annoying

So please add auto-reg for returned leased A/C

I like this suggestion. Also what Jona said, to add different auto-registrations to different sub-fleets if it's possible.

[LemonButt]

Each time require a page refresh, would just so annoying

There should be an easy fix to this using ajax so there isn't a page refresh.

It has to be either of those two, but not both. Currently I've chosen it to increase the letters but it can be changed if people 'vote' for it.

I say to hell with the registration numbers.  Just have the game assign unique registrations to every aircraft and let players assign their own names/ids to aircraft and sort everything by those "internal" names instead of registration.  jetBlue names all their aircraft, for example.  Instead of having 7 aircraft lumped together with esoteric registration numbers I can just call them Heathrow1, Heathrow2, etc. and it makes it way easier to stay organized.  We can already add nicknames to aircraft, but this is largely useless right now.  This also solves the request for "aircraft groups".  There are few things I hate more than assigning registrations to my aircraft...

[Sami]

So instead of this:
N100AA, N100AB, N100AC

It would do this:
N100AA, N101AA, N102AA

Automatic registration for US format will change to this