Allow autocompleting aircraft selection by callsign NUMBERS only

[erikquinn]

Currently, you can type out any callsign and select the aircraft that way instead of shuffling back and forth from keyboard to type and mouse to click on the aircraft to select it.

A more useful implementation of callsign matching would be to allow matching via flight numbers only. Conveniently, the game is already set up to ensure every flight number is unique (eg there will never be a AAL525 and UAL525 in the same game). Therefore, if I want to select VRD858, I should be able to, with nothing selected and without clicking, type 858 c 50 to climb the guy to 5000.

[erikquinn]

Note: this is ESPECIALLY important when it comes to adding pseudopilots (people who can enter the commands you say to them), as there may be many many airplanes on the screen and if they can hear and type the numbers and enter the command instead of searching for the airplane first, much time and effort can be spared. (Trust me, this plagued us with some of the students pseudopiloting in our simulators at Kent State).

[erikquinn]

The ATC repository is being migrated to it's new home at https://github.com/openscope/openscope, and thus, all issues are being closed. If this is still an issue with the latest version of the sim (accessible at http://www.openscope.co), or is a feature you still think we are lacking, please reopen the issue at the new repo.

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Closing this issue.