I want to set up Radar Contact so that my First Officer speaks, but there is no voice for the captain (aka Me)I have been flying Radar Contact for over a year now with pilot wavs disabled, as I like to say my part rather than press a button and listen to a pre-canned recording.However, I would like to continue this practice, but when I hand over the comms to my FO, I hear him speak his part instead of silence. I figure that if I can create a new pilot set that essentially has all the wavs just blank, 5 seconds of silence, then I can have the pilot wavs active and then accomplish my objective.So I ask, is this possible? And how would I go about it, because I see these folders are not named, but numbered, and their structure is complex to say the least.

there is a set of quiet pilot's wavs out there somewhere.does anyone remember where they are?jd

I did a search of the AVSIM file library, and they don't appear to be up there.

You can duplicate a folder of pilot wavs by copying one into an empty folder in a certain folder range in winwood. That is described in the manual. Rename the .txt file in it to the new name (like pilot quiet). This is explained in the rcv43 manual under recording your own waves.Using a wav editor, reduce the volume of each .wav to zero and save. I would not cut the length. If you meed longer time to speak adjust the slider to the right. There are a large number of wavs but it should not take to long to do this.The is a free audio editor called audacity that can perform such an operation in batch mode for a few files at a time that can speed the process. If you give audacity a large number of files it could crash.http://audacity.sourceforge.net/It says it is XP compatible so for later Win versions you may have to run it in compatibility mode. Also, you may have to start it with a shortcut to the .exe with its property set to run as admin.It has a bit of a learning curve but for what you want to do it is a two or three step batch instruction set. Don't forget to include a save instruction in the batch.Rehearse on a copied winwood folder outside of RC.

Thanks Ron, will get that off of sourceforge and use it as you laid out.My original plan was to just rename a quiet MP3 however many times required, but as I see for a pilot there are quite the copious amount of voice files, that option has lost all appeal.If I have any further questions, I assure you I will be back here to pester some more.Cheers,

RC4 has the option Play Pilot Waves. The manual is not clear if that disabled the FO voice when the comms are turned over. I never used it so I'm not sure of the timing. It is intended to let the user speak the pilot response. Try that first.

That is what I do now. With the Play Pilot Waves option turned off, both the CAPT and the FO's voice are disabled. I guess I can always recheck the box when turning comms over to the FO, but having a mute Capt sort of just takes care of the whole thing for me.

There are a couple of disadvantages anyway in having the PNF (pilot not flying or acting co-pilot) handle the comms. First is you may not hear the instruction and you don't have the repeat function. The second is sometimes you want to delay the and you can't such as in an aircraft being sluggish the start climbing or even descending before a climb and you don't want RC monitoring the action immediately. In this case you delay the ack but if you are very close to a waypoint avoid the delay so you get waypoint credit in RC. If you don't use RC menu 9 to use go direct to and select the next waypoint to update RC. Do the same on your navigation gear (FMC/GPS) because RC expects you to go directly from your present position to that next waypoint.