Operator Logos for BaseStation 1.1.1.129 and above
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NOTE THAT THESE LOGOS ARE LARGE FORMAT (85 x 20) AND WILL NOT BE COMPATIBLE WITH SOME OTHER LOGOS SETS - SEE BELOW.


What's in the set
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This is a starter set of just over 1300 logos for the new BaseStation release. It contains most commonly seen operators within Europe whether airlines, executive aircraft, business aircraft or even flying club - provided they use an approved ICAO Operator code. 

In addition a full set of worldwide military logos are provided. I have assigned these four digit codes to indicate they are not ICAO standard using the convention of:
 
Two digit UN country code/hyphen/M. 

Examples are US-M for USA Mil and DE-M for Germany Mil.



Please note!
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Note that this logo set was originally designed for displaying a logo in the Aircraft Details window and therefore the bitmaps are quite large - 85 x 20 pixels. This is approximately twice the width of other logo sets so they may not appeal to everyone. 

If you prefer smaller bitmaps I suggest looking at the excellent bitmap sets from:

Andy (FlyingArt) at http://www.sbsflags.co.uk/

or Mark Coles at http://freespace.virgin.net/m.coles/logospage1.html.

Users who would prefer individual military unit markings may also wish to look at Jack Ford's logo collection at http://www.jackzone.org/sbs-1/index.html. Jack has created a wealth of logos for airlines and military units which do not have ICAO codes thus extending the potential of the display considerably. Jack's logos are also 85 x 20 format.


Installation
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Simply copy the included bitmaps into your OperatorFlags folder - which BaseStation should have created for you.

The logos require activating before they will display. This is done by adding the three digit Operator code in the OperatorFlagCode field in BaseStation or in Reporter. If using BaseStation:

 Double click on the aircraft to bring up the Aircraft Details box.
 Click the Edit button to bring up the Edit Record window. 
 The code needs to be added to the Operator Flag Code field. 

In Reporter the Operator field can be edited directly.

If users have SBSPopulate this now includes ICAO codes and will write these to the aircraft records automatically. Although manual input is mostly unecessary GAS are still populating their own database and not every ICAO code is available. Some manual work is still required for now. 

The military codes I have provided may still require adding manually.



Code Sets
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The bulk of included codes are ICAO 3 digit standard. If an airline callsign is EZY3116 then EZY should be added to the Op Flag Code box to trigger the EZY bitmap. Some airlines sub charter aircraft so the callsign may not match the aircraft's true operator. Here users should enter what suits them best for their display.

If a military aircraft appears on SBS you can trigger a military roundel by typing in a four digit code. For these I have used the United Nations ISO 3166 two letter country codes followed by -M to signify it is a military (non ICAO) code. For example IT-M will trigger the Italian AF roundel and US-M will trigger the USA emblem. A copy of ISO 3166 is included in this zip and users can also check the UN page at http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm.

A few military units have obtained ICAO codes - mostly European air forces, RAF stations and a few US units. For example RCH (Reach) will also trigger a US Mil bitmap and codes like RRR, RFR, VYT, LOS, NVY and AAC trigger a UK roundel (and several more - the RAF have quite a number of ICAO codes).

I have included several other non standard bitmaps:

UKP      will trigger a Police bitmap
@CODE    will trigger a MISCODE bitmap
@NOLOG   will trigger a blank (No Logo) bitmap
@RADAR   will trigger a radar bitmap - suitable for ground radar codes
@VEHICLE will trigger a vehicle bitmap - sutiable for ground vehicles
@FIRE    will trigger a fire engine bitmap

For aircraft not allocated an ICAO or military code Ian Kirby (IANK in the Kinetic forum) has produced a set of complementary aircraft silhouettes for most aircraft types. Most of these are for light aircraft and executive jets which rarely have an ICAO Operator code. To trigger Ian's bitmaps users should enter the ICAO Aircraft code in the ICAOOprCode field.




There are just over 1300 bitmaps in this collection - hopefully enough to get most users seeing a reasonable number of logos in their display. I will add further bitmaps to this collection as my SBS picks up more callsigns. 

You can add your own bitmap files if you have a good paint program that can crop and resize images to 85 x 20 as used in the collection. I would add that this size is not a fixed value - you could make the bitmaps any length you wish - but the height is limited to 20 pixels as any deeper will see the image truncated.

I hope you have fun with them.

My sincere thanks to Sabre and Gary at GAS for a lot of help and useful criticism. I appreciate their input.

bones
