Since my youth I have a serious loss of hearing.

My hearing aid gives me a lot of help, but it has it's restrictions.

Ever since I have become an fsx enthousiastic, especialy with the pmdg 737ngx, i have been looking for a way to replace the fsx atc (wat a dragon).

Online atc{Vatsim}, is not an option, but also radarcontact is difficult because you still have to set squake box and other things.

Fs2crew buttton edition is a copilot assistance, and not a replacement for atc.

With the knowledge, that there must be more pilots with the same handicap, (we all get older), I just would wonder if a program like radarcontact could be developed with the same interface as fsx atc,

It's about the only good thing about it, because everything you have to do (nav.settings, squakebox, comm.settings, altitude, heading etc). is displayed.

 

Perhaps a good idea for a poll to see how many people are having these troubles, not to forget the people who don't speak english, but who can read the settings in the display.

 

Greatings and still happy flying.

 

Ton van Dongen

Netherlands

Radar contact does not need anything like Squawk Box, it runs on its own. It is perfectly suitable for what you want, since it has an ATC dialogue box similar to the default FSX ATC dialogue box, with all ATC responses listed. It can also display what the controller says via scrolling text at the top of the FSX window, so you could in fact use Radar Contact with the sound completely turned off, thus is it perfectly usable by anyone with impaired hearing.

 

Al

Al, thanks for the comment but still a few questions,

When i installed radarcontact v4 I only saw the small red text box giving most information but for example not the squake code (sorry i said squake box)

In fsuipc 4.80 i set multiline settings checked in, single line setting checked out, but i have never seen a scrolling text window.

In the old version of radarcontact this was i believe the advdisp.

So am i missing some setting or should i install something extra?

You can fly on VATSIM using text only. You might miss the voice calls to other aircraft, but you will still get ATC commands regarding your aircraft via text. I think Radar Contact would be a good option though as Al stated.

Make sure you right click and run Radar Contact as the administrator (it works better that way) and in the general preferences, choose this:

 

 

Al

Thanks for the help Jim,

I'll give it another try.

 

greetings,

 

Ton