Wow, 10 pax just to change some info seems quite expensive… Will there be a free change option for premium?
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He mentioned it in the last video, that it would be expensive so that people wouldn’t be changing their license plates on a whim.
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I think that it is a good price for this service. If you buy an airplane “used”, for only 10PAX you can change the tail number with a number that you like!
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I think it is a good price as well.
I suspect soon people will have surplus PAX they are looking to spend.
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In reality, before minting an airplane, you think carefully about the ICAO code to enter. It’s not like you make an airplane license plate like that and you can easily invent it. When you mint an airplane, you have to think carefully about the ICAO code to enter based on your country, your company, and your credentials, so it’s not that simple. Entering just 4 letters is complicated. If you then enter 4 letters and on a whim you decide to change them, it’s fair that you pay the platform. Simfly’s brain can’t go crazy just because of your whim.
I have an important question: What would happen if a pilot accidentally creates a new ICAO code for his aircraft and the ICAO code he entered is the same as the ICAO code of another aircraft owned by another pilot? Is simfly’s brain capable of recognizing whether the ICAO code already exists on the platform? Is it able to tell you that that code already exists? And what if you have to create a different one?
Well, Symonx, it’s always fascinating to see how a simple four-letter code can be elevated to near-sacred status.
Just a quick clarification, though: the ICAO registration code isn’t some mysterious, unique entity—it’s simply a combination of a national prefix and an aircraft identifier, not unlike how license plates work. And in real life, those do change, especially during transfers or imports. So no, we’re not asking SimFly’s “brain” to solve quantum mechanics here—just to update a string in a database.
That said, I actually agree it’s fair to charge a small PAX fee for the change. After all, even digital paperwork needs to pay the bills, right?
Let’s just not pretend that swapping a few characters in a database would throw the whole system into a meltdown.
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Fortunately, databases —those little miracles of the modern world— have been handling this kind of existential dilemma for decades. They’re called unique constraints, and yes, even modest platforms like SimFly are fully capable of implementing them without summoning next-gen AI.
When you try to register an ICAO code that’s already in use, the system simply… notifies you. No fireworks, no meltdown — the universe stays in balance, and the pilot just picks a different code. Almost magical, isn’t it?
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