> Yeah well, it might help to always make the first two or three characters unique, then you can be certain it always works without having to check the list. Re

> Yeah well, it might help to always make the first two or three characters unique, then you can be certain it always works without having to check the list. Realism is kept that way. Unfortunately these two are fundamentally at odds. In real life the call signs are based on carrier (or tail number if no call sign is assigned). In the current iteration, there are two airlines, United (all of the UAL flights) and British Airways (all of the BWA flights), plus the Cessna "airline" that mimics general aviation craft by prefixing the call sign with "N".