AirNav Systems Forum
General => Aviation => Topic started by: merlinflyer on September 02, 2008, 05:35:48 PM
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i was trying to track a flight from madrid to heathrow IB 3166 and i put this into the alerts feature but i noticed that the flight showed up on screen as IBE 31GQ.
how can i track a flight when the last two numbers are changed to letters and why?
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Often the flight number used on the aircraft is different to the published flight number. For example, EZY764 is EZY50DZ. I don't know why.
However, you can use wild cards (*) when setting up an alert, so maybe something like IBE31* might work.
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When I'm looking to track a flight, say BAW009, I'll put all possible combinations into the alert box:
BA9
BA09
BA009
BAW9
BAW09
BAW009
Ok, so this is a bit of an extreme example, but I'm sure you get the idea.
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seems the only thing that does not change is the airline prefix
in the future i will use a combination of both replys
your answers are very helpfull to me as im still learning as i have only had this radarbox for 1 week.
thanks again for your replys
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seems the only thing that does not change is the airline prefix
Actually if you look in the example Allocator quoted above you will see the Airline prefix does change - BA-BAW
Why do they do that?
I had the same issue a few weeks ago when a friend of mine flew to Australia.
I input the flight details I had directly from the British Airways website and the airport monitors I believe and wondered why her flight was delayed.
Realised afterwards that BA should have been BAW...:-(
Didn't make the same mistake on her return flight - had a list like the British Airways 'Catch All' one referred to above but also added the Qantas & Singapore Airlines flight numbers...one heck of a list for one flight!
Kind regards,
-=Glyn=-