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I'm a Squadron Leader flying in a German mission,
and I look round behind me and I see British names
following.Which Dat file can I change or alter to make
the names German?.

Mmm, I think this may need to find its way to the CFS2 forums...

The callsigns used in CFS2 are stored in the callsign.dat file found in the INFO folder.  You can add additonal callsigns to existing nationalities or add new nationalities with their own callsigns. Open the file using Notepad and follow the existing format to make changes.

You can also hand edit the mission file to change callsigns that are specific to that mission only, such as to add actual pilot names for each individual plane.

However, the stock CFS2 comes with German callsigns already listed in the callsign.dat file.  If you're flying for Germany but seeing British names it's possible the nationality was set wrong in the mission for your flight.

Of course, if your surrounded by names like Heinz Afyre, Heinz Schottupp or such, it was probably an intentional milieu.

Heinz Ketchup anyone?

LOL!


Actually it's in the country.cfg in your CFS2 Main Folder.


Happy flying,




Bombardier

PS: I was working on a new country.cfg section for Germany not long ago. It has many, many, many new names, all the proper ranks and it doesn't take only about 2 missions to easily get promoted You go from Gefreiter right up to General der Fleiger (I think) and only long campaigns will get you near the top rank. Other features too....

Hey! what Coyote told you is right. Who ever made this missions just place the planes under the wrong country headings.

That is very simple to correct. Just go back to the mission builder and change the country heading for the players plane on that mission.

Here is tutorial on the mission builder.

Coyotes how to make missions:http://www.simviation.com/lair/ccmbintro1.htm

James007

"The devil is in the details" as they say and if I had paid closer attention to the topic heading I would have noticed that you were refering to a campaign mission and not a single mission.