Hi All

 

I am having problems with atc. I have traffic set to about 80 and i find it hard to respond to atc as other aircraft are talking so my ifr flight keeps getting cancelled.

So i made the co pilot to handle atc which he does sort of. What keeps happening is when he replies to atc the message does not go through as others are talking and he only tried the once hence my ifr was cancelled man im p@@@@@. Thid has happened on more that one occasion. Can anyone please help me with this.

I have fsx with win xp.

 

Thank you

I share your pain, brother! What's particularly soul destroying is when you've correctly read back a long string of instructions, only to have ATC themselves squelch you with a "Did you get my last transmission?"

 

Unfortunately, it's an inherent problem of add-on voice comms, as opposed to a complete ATC replacement like VoxATC. You can improve things a little if you download and use EditVoicePack to speed up the ATC speech - faster talking means potentially longer gaps between AI speech for you to get a word in edgeways.

 

But to be honest, at 80% traffic I'd be struggling to get a word in even using keypresses instead of voice. I run at around 50% traffic, and can struggle to get a word in to ATC at my home airport (EGCC). I normally operate a "three strikes" principle - if voice recognition fails - or is successful but gets squelched by traffic - three times, then I fall back to the keyboard (and even then it can take a few tries if the channel is busy). It's a bit of a compromise, I know, but it's better than screwing up a flight by trying to stick to "pure" vox comms.

 

(*EDIT*) Another thought - you can increase your chance of getting a word in edgeways if you can force yourself to talk over the AI/ATC speech. The thing is that since MCE's speech recognition runs as a seperate process to the ATC chatter, you're not actually broadcasting until it selects the menu item and your speech comes up in the ATC window (or gets squelched by another speech) So if you time it right so that your speech ends roughly the same time as the AI, you might be able to slot into the small gap after they finish speaking. You can also "ride" the push-to-talk button to some extent, holding it for a few seconds after speaking, but only for a few seconds until MCE detects that you've finished speaking.

 

Hope that's some help.

 

Dr V

Hi Dr V

 

I will try what you said but im not too sure how to edit with the voice pack as i have not done that before.

 

Thank you for your help

 

Ian

Ian

 

EditVoicePack is a handy little free application that lets you customise the MS ATC voices to modify and add to their vocabulary. You can chop up and reassemble words that it can currently say to make new ones. But it also has an online database of words and phrases already done by other users, and an automatic "update everything" option, so you don't have to do any of the hard work.

 

When I ran it I used it to add all the custom airline names, install the option to change the phraseology from FCC to ICAO (e.g. saying "decimal" instead of "point") and speed up the ATC speech slightly - I could have sped it up more but as a newbie I was struggling to hear and understand what was being said if it ran too fast.

 

I highly recommend it, it's one of the "must have" FSX freebies IMO.

 

http://www.editvoicepack.com/