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AFV1077 Captain, A350-900 Joined on May 10 2018 GVA 5 Year Anniversary Scandinavia 82 legs, 179.2 hours 74 legs, 163.6 hours online 81 legs, 177.9 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on November 28 2018 23:42 ET by Christian Martensen
	Hello! I was flying HV as per a AFVA scheduled flight the other day (HV5461). Online on VATSIM, I was informed by a controller that the real ICAO code should have been TRA / TVF depending on whether it's Transavia Holland or France. They use ICAO for this. HV /TO is is IATA format, typically for ticketing etc. For future HV named scheduled flights from AFVA, may I change my callsign to TRA/TVF respectively ?
AFV493 Senior Captain, DC-3 DISPATCHER Joined on May 01 2011 International Tourist The Penguins Of Madagascar Online Triple Century Club Millenium Club Pushing Tin Club Historical Five Hundred Club GVA 5 Year Anniversary "Your never too old to learn something new." UK 1,189 legs, 2,352.1 hours 343 legs, 538.6 hours online 1,189 legs, 2,352.1 hours ACARS 2 legs, 4.1 hours event 318 legs dispatched, 179.0 hours	Posted onPost created on November 29 2018 09:49 ET by Roger Taylor
	Hi Christian, Yes, you are required to use the ICAO codes when flying online, so the use of TRA/TVF/AFR/KLM/DAL etc etc is required. For ACARS and Schedules we use the IATA 99% of the time. The only time in the schedules you'll see the ICAO code being used like GOL flights to name but one, is because, it doesn't like it when the IATA has a number in it, and so it doesn't work. As GOL is G3, it thinks the 3 is part of the flight number and therefore wont allow you to file it, so we had to insert them with the ICAO code to allow them to work with ACARS. But ONLINE ALWAYS use the ICAO Codes. Hope this helps Roger
AFV1036 Senior Captain, A350-900 Joined on October 13 2017 GVA 1 Year Anniversary 50 State Club Under African Skies Globetrotter Extraordinaire Millenium Club Baby Bus Two Fifty Club Skyteam Supremacist Södermanlands län Sweden 1,150 legs, 1,763.3 hours 14 legs, 21.5 hours online 1,096 legs, 1,659.3 hours ACARS	Posted onPost created on December 29 2018 00:55 ET by Fredrik Martensson
	I had the same problem with this before. But im thinking like this if i would fly youre flight: Company: Transavia (Holland) Flightnr: 5461 When i fly online i file HV5461 as my flightnumber, but my "callsign" will be TRA5461 (Transavia5461). I had another flight 2 days ago: Company: AirFrance Flightnr: 6206 Filed: AF6206, and my "callsign" was AFR6206 (AirFrance6206). If im not sure what callsign i should use, i use to just search for example AF6206 on google and there you have it.

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