A320 Flybywire liveries

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Hi there,

have a question about the starting screen during my flight. It shows that I am using Wizz Air livery when in fact that is SAS livery. What is interesting though is that even if pick default livery or fbw livery it still shows the same thing. Why is that happening? (Screenshot attached).

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Using development version - updating every day via flybywire downloader
Using dedicated liveries from flightsim.to that are made for FBW modification.

Does that mean other players see my always as WizzAir livery (of course if they have one in their community folder) or do the see me properly if they also have that livery in community?

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That title is depending on the Aircraft.cfg title from your SAS livery. Chances are, either the livery that you downloaded didn’t have the title updated, or it was copied the Wizz Air aircraft.cfg to be used for the SAS livery. Either way, the aircraft.cfg for the SAS livery is labelled wrongly.

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The thing is that it says I am on Wizz livery even if I pick default FBW or Airbus livery. SAS cfg file looks ok:

[VERSION]
major=1
minor=0

[VARIATION]
base_container ="…\FlyByWire_A320_NEO"

[FLTSIM.0]
title = “FBW Airbus A320 Neo SAS” ; Variation name
ui_variation = “Scandinavian Airlines” ; e.g. World Air, IFR Panel
texture = “SAS” ; texture folder
model = “SAS” ; model folder
atc_id = " " ; tail number
atc_airline = “Scandinavian” ; airline name
icao_airline=“SAS”
isAirTraffic=0 ; Is the plane usable for air traffic
isUserSelectable=1 ; Is the plane selectable by the user

[FLTSIM.1]
title = " FBW Airbus A320 Neo SAS AI" ; Variation name
ui_variation = “Scandinavian Airlines” ; e.g. World Air, IFR Panel
texture = “SAS” ; texture folder
model = “SAS” ; model folder
atc_id = " " ; tail number
atc_airline = “Scandinavian” ; airline name
icao_airline=“SAS”
isAirTraffic=1 ; Is the plane usable for air traffic
isUserSelectable=0 ; Is the plane selectable by the user

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Check your UI_Type… This is the one they use to show on the opening. Mine is showing FlyByWire Simulations A320neo (LEAP) as this is my complete SAS aircraft.cfg

[VERSION]
major = 1
minor = 0

[VARIATION]
base_container = "..\FlyByWire_A320_NEO"

;===================== FLTSIM =====================

[FLTSIM.0]
title = "Airbus A320 Neo FlyByWire Scandinavian Airlines System" ; Variation name
model = "SAS" ; model folder
panel = "" ; panel folder
sound = "" ; sound folder
texture = "SAS" ; texture folder
kb_checklists = "Boeing747-400_check" ; Procedures/Checklist sibling file name
kb_reference = "Boeing747-400_ref" ; Reference information sibling file name
description = "TT:AIRCRAFT.DESCRIPTION" ; Variation description.
wip_indicator = 0 ; know if the variation is good to go or still WIP : -1=Disabled, 0=Rough, 1=1st Pass, 2=Finished
ui_manufacturer = "FlyByWire Simulations" ; e.g. Boeing, Cessna
ui_type = "A320neo (LEAP)" ; e.g. 747-400, 172
ui_variation = "Scandinavian Airlines System" ; e.g. World Air, IFR Panel
ui_typerole = "Commercial Airliner" ; e.g. Single Engine Prop, Twin Engine Prop, Rotorcraft, etc
ui_createdby = "FlyByWire Simulations" ; e.g. Asobo Studio, Microsoft, FSAddonCompany, etc
ui_thumbnailfile = "" ; app relative path to ThumbNail image file
ui_certified_ceiling = 39800 ; service ceiling / max certified operating altitude (ft)
ui_max_range = 3500 ; max distance the aircraft can fly between take-off and landing in (NM)
ui_autonomy = 7 ; max duration the aircraft can fly between take-off and landing in (Hrs)
ui_fuel_burn_rate = 5300 ; average fuel consumption per hour (lbs/hr) - reminder: fuel density is ~6.7lbs per US gallon
icao_airline = "SAS"
atc_id = " " ; tail number
atc_id_enable = 1 ; enable tail number
atc_airline = "Scandinavian" ; airline name
atc_flight_number = "" ; flight number
atc_heavy = 1 ; heavy?
atc_parking_types = "GATE,RAMP" ; "ANY" / "RAMP" / "CARGO" / "MIL_CARGO" / "MIL_COMBAT" / "GATE" / "DOCK"
atc_parking_codes = "SAS" ; Comma separated and may be as small as one character each
atc_id_color = "" ; color for the tail number : i.e. "#ffff00ff"
atc_id_font = "" ; font for the tail number
isAirTraffic = 0 ; Is the plane usable for air traffic
isUserSelectable = 1 ; Is the plane selectable by the user
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Still no luck… Added UI_Type to the liveries but it still picks only one of them at the start.

Currently using (all FBW versions):

  • EasyJet livery (after installing EasyJet it became the default at the start).
  • Wizz livery
  • SAS livery

All the time it shows “Fly By Wire A320neo Easyjet” at the start if using any of above liveries. It even shows that information when I pick the default airbus livery. That is strange as I am not doing any modification and just paste liveries to community folder.

6

Did you check the actual textures in the livery folder? Are they WIZZ or SAS?

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Yes and I even decided to delete all liveries and download them once again and put into community without any additional actions that could lead to some errors.

Now I have liveries mentioned above (EZY/WIZZ/SAS) and funny thing is that now… every aircraft is called “FlyByWire Simulations A320neo (LEAP)” no matter which livery I have (at the start screen before “Ready to Fly”). On the world map during the picking airport and livery, every livery has a proper name for example “FlyByWire Simulations Scandinavian Airlines”.

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That’s how it should look like I guess. Like I said, it’s something to do with the aircraft.cfg.

On the world map selection screen, when you select the aircraft, you will see as a combination of ui_manufacturer followed by ui_type. If every livery that you have has the following:

ui_manufacturer = "FlyByWire Simulations" ; e.g. Boeing, Cessna
ui_type = "A320neo (LEAP)" ; e.g. 747-400, 172

Then it would display as:

FlyByWire Simulations A320neo (LEAP)

Then under your Livery Selection, it will be showing the combination of ui_manufacturer followed by ui_variation from the aircraft.cfg. So if your SAS livery has the following code:

ui_manufacturer = "FlyByWire Simulations" ; e.g. Boeing, Cessna
ui_type = "A320neo (LEAP)" ; e.g. 747-400, 172
ui_variation = "Scandinavian Airlines System" ; e.g. World Air, IFR Panel

Then it will show as

FlyByWire Simulations Scandinavian Airlines System

By the time you get to your cinematic intro in your flight. The sim will take the name from the first part, which is the Aircraft type. That’s why if all your liveries are using the same combination of ui_manufacturer followed by ui_type, then it would always display as such.

If you want the label to be specific to your SAS livery for example, then you can add more information into the ui_type. Perhaps into something like this:

ui_manufacturer = "FlyByWire Simulations" ; e.g. Boeing, Cessna
ui_type = "A320neo (LEAP) SAS" ; e.g. 747-400, 172
ui_variation = "Scandinavian Airlines System" ; e.g. World Air, IFR Panel

That way it would show as:

FlyByWire Simulations A320neo (LEAP) SAS

But I’m not sure how that will affect your main world map selection. If I had to guess, since the ui_type is now different, it would be classified as a standalone aircraft. Meaning you will have multiple aircraft types with each of them only having 1 livery.