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Originally Posted by Bob C
I know that a new registration system was implemented because the present three letter alphabetic system was supposedly nearing exhaustion and three characters were retained because it would have been hugely expensive for CASA to change their computer systems to four characters - ie VH-AAAZ.
However, I don't understand why there is a plethora of new styles - ie Numeric/alpha/alpha ; VH-8IC, Alpha/numeric/alpha ; VH-X4B, Numeric/numeric/alpa; VH-88T and Alpha/alpha/numeric ; VH-AC6.
And the old three letter alphabetic system is still being used ; VH-FOH.
Surely it would have been easier to just use one style. Am I missing something?
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The same scenario happened in Canada some years ago when they were running out of available registrations too . They changed from a CF-*** registration to a C- F*** and C- G*** , no numerical combinations were implemented . I was wondering why a V-H*** and V-J *** couldn’t have been adopted , this would have provided 26x the current registration combinations without numbers being used .. Am I missing the obvious too ..