I had no idea Australia was top dog! Wow, 193! I hope they're all the same!
I've painted 110 aircraft so far, most of them UK. The UK CAA lists aircraft as being active, but which are in pieces in a shed somewhere, or on a lengthy rebuild after a crash, so they are not all in the air, and many won't fly for a few years. I've painted 2 German aircraft but there are others in Germany. D-EORX wears the UK registration largest, has an American registration under the tailplane, and D-EORX on the tail. Likewise, NX333XB has G-ASXB on the side and is based in the Seattle area. Meanwhile an American-reg Tiger Moth is operating in England, while 2 English TMs are in Hungary, and another, G-AJHS (painted by me) is in Holland, at Seppe.
The bad news is that the paints I have made, and the p/k, were created in Corel Paintshop Pro X8. Although I can save it as a PS file, all vector layers become raster, which makes the p/k a lot less user-friendly.
Tracking will be extremely difficult. Many Tigers don't have electrics at all. Tigers tend to have a little generator mounted among the wheel struts, or just aft of there, if they have something even as simple as a radio. I flew one years ago, G-ANTE, and that had a generator under the fuselage to power a simple radio mounted on a side panel using a simple metal bracket. I can't imagine many Tigers having anything more advanced and power hungry such as an ADS-B transmitter.
I've painted one from Oz, 2 from Canada (there is a version with a basic Canadian canopy and the re-angled gear on the DH82C), one from Ireland (AHI), one from NZ (BAH), one from Sweden (the bright one), and 2 of the 3 Swiss. I have working bases for all the British Tigers and have made myself some 52-week plans for them, but they use very minor airfields (about 1/3 are on private strips that FS9 doesn't know about), so apart from the aircraft there is also a need to consider either making new strips, or finding the nearest "normal" airport for it to fly from. My planner can keep the aircraft on very small airfields, althogh I have allowed the plans to visit a mid-tier airport very occasionally (for example Bristol in the UK, but not Birmingham).
It's actually quite a difficult thing to plan.
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