Since the latest Updates of FBW A380, SimFly doesnt recognize the airplane anymore for me.
”Doesnt match the one in the Flightplan…..”
Airplane Rental isn’t possible anymore.
Anyone else having the same problem?
Testes different liverys… ist there a workarround?
Hi, when you use that exact aircraft with that livery and it doesn’t get recognized, could you hover your mouse over the aircraft and tell me what name appears?
If possible, please send me a screenshot as well.
For example, like this:
In the Air actually….
Etihad A6-API 4K
Checked some other A380 Liveries , manifest.json
For example:
“title”: “FBW Aribus A380 - D-AKID”,
“title”: “Global Airlines A380 9H-GLOBL”,
“title”: “Etihad A6-API 4K”,
“A380” must be a part of the title??
Yes, exactly — the livery name must contain at least one keyword that identifies the aircraft model.
With these two liveries, your aircraft should be recognized correctly:
“title”: “FBW Airbus A380 - D-AKID”
“title”: “Global Airlines A380 9H-GLOBL”
because both include the keyword A380.
Superb @Karim-CTO-SimFly . the issue was that I have trieed to use this one:
“title”: “Etihad A6-API 4K”,
Exactly — yes, that livery didn’t include the aircraft model keyword 
Let me know if, after switching to a proper livery that contains the keyword, it recognizes your aircraft correctly.
Hello, then i’m wondering what would happen if i rename the livery of my C172 with A380 in the title … I guess I would get PAX & XP calculated based on a Class 7 airplane ?
(not trying, just telling as there may be a serious glitch here)
Hi Benoit0211, great question.
On SimFly it would indeed look like you’re flying an A380 — but in the simulator you’re still actually flying a C172, and this wouldn’t give you any advantage at all, quite the opposite. With an A380 you would cover many more miles in much less time, while with a C172, even if you flew the same distance, you’d need far more time, so you wouldn’t gain anything in terms of time/distance ratio — actually the opposite. You would also receive penalties during the flight analysis, because a C172 behaves nothing like an A380.
That’s why it wouldn’t be convenient — you would actually lose out. In the past, we’ve seen users try the opposite, which gave them an unfair advantage in terms of XP and PAX on their owned aircraft: for example flying a Concorde but renaming the livery as “A321”. In that case it was really convenient, because they could cover many more miles in much less time.
And that’s exactly why we introduced a rule based on the maximum range and maximum speed in knots of the real aircraft model, preventing any abuse based on livery names.
Today, for example, even if you fly a Concorde with a livery renamed “A321”, we still know that the real A321 model has a maximum range of about 3,200 nautical miles and a maximum speed of around 450 knots. If you exceed the maximum range, the mission will be cancelled; if you exceed the maximum speed, the mission will be cancelled — so it’s no longer worth trying.
This simple rule solved the problem and, until SimConnect introduces a system to identify the aircraft using the real ICAO code instead of the livery name, we’re really looking forward to it — it would save us a lot of verification and control work.
