Aircraft drawing improperly

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MXMiles
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Aircraft drawing improperly

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I was fortunate enough to be in the pattern with a nice crowd of fellow pilots tonight at ONT. Had a very enjoyable experience. However, I noticed as I was taxiing to parking there were a number of planes parked on the tarmac that looked like a large airplane empennage with a question mark on it. Is this a software incompatibility issue? Is there a way to resolve this so that the aircraft appear in their correct model and livery? Thanks again for the great controlling!
DrZGard
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Re: Aircraft drawing improperly

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I have observed this testing with FSX and not with xPlane. Non recognized aircraft are supposed to be represented as C172 I believe although there seems to be a glitch with some of these. I don't get on PE to plane watch so it hasn't bothered me and am confident it will get solved in the near future.
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Keith Smith
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Re: Aircraft drawing improperly

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If there is an aircraft that's connected with an ICAO code that we don't have a model for, it uses the 'default' aircraft. That USED to be a the 172, but somehow that change was lost and it's now the paper airplane again.

This will be re-examined in an upcoming cleanup of the client.
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Re: Aircraft drawing improperly

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I heard the traffic referring to themselves as beech bonanza which is a fairly common aircraft and I would have thought they would be coded on my game software. I do realized this is probably low on the lists of concerns for this network so this is not meant to sound like a complaint. It does remove me from the realism factor but does not harm to the primary goal for me to learn communications.
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Re: Aircraft drawing improperly

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I incorporated the change into the new PE Client, it will now show a 172 if it doesn't have a mapping for the aircraft.

There are two common issues: 1) people use an ICAO code that is incorrect (usually from X-Plane where you type in the ICAO code by hand), or 2) we don't ship with a model for that aircraft.

With the fallback to the 172, it should be less distracting, visually. Over time, we hope to add to the model library considerably.
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Re: Aircraft drawing improperly

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Great! Thanks, Keith.
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