I have for some time named planes. Though not in my major airlines as I am not that creative to come up with 500 or more names. In the first CBE I named planes after various famous swedes such as Olof Palme. At Asian Airways I named planes after various birds and colours of them such as Green Sparrow. At Trans Atlantic I named my all long haul fleet after various female "nicknames" which sometimes where based on the destination they flew too, Britishness or various references, such as:
Misschief
Girlie
Lovely
Latina
High Flyer
African Heart
Americana
Oh Mylanta
Hot Babe
Beauty Babe
Day Dreamer
Sugar Baby
Mustang Sally
Girl in Burka
Scotland Girl
Sweet Dreamer
Hot Lips
Miss Britain
Pretty Woman
Bloody Mary
Miss England
Shady Lady
Dream Girl
Miss Beauty
First Lady
Blondie
Brittney
Lady Love
HighUpFlyer
Byzantine
Harem
High Flyer
Lady World
Lady Love
Red Angel
Wonder Girl
Hot Wings
Love Angel
Svietlana
Mother Russia
Asian Hottie
Mexicana Legacy
Black Goldie
High Life Baby
Eastern Jewel
Affection
Uptown Girl
Miss Moneypenny
Biggie
La Floridita
Flying in Unity
Atlantic Girl
Queen of the Skies
At American I named only my long haul planes after various super American saying such as American Might, American Power, American Veteran, American Flame, American Queen, etc.
To be honest naming planes really helps with keeping track of them. Especially at Trans Atlantic where the fleet wasn't too large and all operations where long haul. An other method would be to just name them after numbers but that is almost the same as the REG. I have friends who name their planes after routes that the specific plane flies which I don't quite get. Sure its easier to know where the plane flies but it isn't that hard to open up the schedule with mouse wheel click.
Would be great but sadly not possible in AS. In AS registrations are either picked by the smallest one available or by the number of plane in your fleet (USA). Would love to have the option to choose registration.
I name my planes if I'm in a right mood. Right now, my Estonian airline has 4 planes, which are named after birds and insects in the Estonian language:
I often used town or district names for my planes (yes, thats boring :P )
But for a long time, a few of my planes where named after former airlines of the server. Good friends or alliance partners who left my gameworld. They got a small monument to remember them in the way like
"Spirit of XYZ Airline"
But today, due to fleet reorganization, nearly all names are gone. Except those three planes, who have a "special livery", and wich i am using at X-Plane flightsim. Yes, three of my Airlinesim planes have a nerdy counterpart in X-Plane :ph34r:
At first I also started with naming them, but once you get over 20 aircraft it can get tricky finding more “good” names.
I similarly use labels in the description to display the flight plan. My code looks like this:
HUB | Destinations
VTE | BKK/HAN/SGN/CNX
Or
VTE | 01-LHR/LAX/JNB/… (in case I distributed a flight plan to multiple aircraft)
And since the descriptions are already used, I then sometimes use the aircraft names for actions I should do to that aircraft, sth like: Replace with CS300, Check C load, etc.
I often used town or district names for my planes (yes, thats boring :P )
But for a long time, a few of my planes where named after former airlines of the server. Good friends or alliance partners who left my gameworld. They got a small monument to remember them in the way like
"Spirit of XYZ Airline"
But today, due to fleet reorganization, nearly all names are gone. Except those three planes, who have a "special livery", and wich i am using at X-Plane flightsim. Yes, three of my Airlinesim planes have a nerdy counterpart in X-Plane :ph34r:
it's not boring because i do the same thing :ph34r:
I use any airline had been on the server for years but for some reason, the player left the game. The difference is i named my a/c in the form of 'Clipper XYZ'.
i do have an airline naming the aircraft after cities and locations in Indonesia, but it's because the player who i bought the airline from named the aircraft in that way. I'm just following the tradition.
I always use the names of the counties of the state that I’m based in. Say, for instance, I’m based in Texas. Texas has 254 counties, so I know I have that many names available. You can always type in “list of counties in X state” and use the Wikipedia list. I usually start with the least populous county and go up.
I always use the names of the counties of the state that I'm based in. Say, for instance, I'm based in Texas. Texas has 254 counties, so I know I have that many names available. You can always type in "list of counties in X state" and use the Wikipedia list. I usually start with the least populous county and go up.
I did the exact same thing with my Tunisian airline, and learned some interesting thing doing so, like that the Star Wars planet Tatooine is named after the Tunisian town Tataouine. :lol: