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The field callsign is "unprocessed" (convert from "Piper-two-Five-Seven-papa" back to "Piper 257P"), then used as callsign. But this never leads to a call sign that can be used for livery matching.
Suggested Solution
Use field flight_icao if available, which seems to hold a callsign as expected, like in the following record:
The "unprocessed" callsign leads "American 2520" while just directly using flight_icao would use "AAL2502", which during livery matching would indeed find American Airlines liveries.
There are rare cases in which flight_icao and callsign don't agree, like in
Current Situation / Problem
The field
callsign
is "unprocessed" (convert from "Piper-two-Five-Seven-papa" back to "Piper 257P"), then used as callsign. But this never leads to a call sign that can be used for livery matching.Suggested Solution
Use field
flight_icao
if available, which seems to hold a callsign as expected, like in the following record:The "unprocessed"
callsign
leads "American 2520" while just directly usingflight_icao
would use "AAL2502", which during livery matching would indeed find American Airlines liveries.There are rare cases in which
flight_icao
andcallsign
don't agree, like inbut these seem to be comparibly rare exceptions. The benefit of just using
flight_icao
when available outweights the risk of these rare mismatches.Benefits
More appropriate representation of SI flights.
Additional context
Suggest in this forum post.
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