I have just recently become commisioned in the Navy and am now in a civilian flight program to get a bit of flight time before I start school as a Flight Officer. I got into a cockpit and flew for the very first time today out of KPNS. It was an amazing experience to say the least. To keep the story short, I have a bit of MS Flight Sim experience but Im interested in possibly trying to use it as a tool to get used to voice comms. Long ago I hooked up to a server and quickly was overcome by the comms going on there. My instructor did the all the comms for me today but as of tomorrow she wants me to start doing it. As its been quite awhile since Ive done any kind of multiplayer(or MS flight simulator in general) Im wondering what programs I need to look for to get set up for this type of thing. Id appreciate any help you could give me in this matter. Thanks much.

If you would simply like to work on ATC communications, I could probably help you with that. I am a Line Oriented Flight Instructor and run our Beech 1900D Sim for our LOFT/ CRM Crews.

Go to the forum next door here on Avsim which is devoted to this new ATC program called VoxATC. It is purely voice based ATC add-on for FS9 which forces you to use standard ATC phraseology. It has state of the art voice recognition system and apparently is very good. There is a free demo.Michael J.WinXP-Home SP2,AMD64 3500+,Abit AV8,Radeon X800Pro,36GB Raptor,1GB PC3200,Audigy 2

Thanks for the replies. I may take you up on that offer Arrington. I checked out that VoxATC and I will have to DL the demo and check it out. I took my second flight today and did most of the comms for the flight. I felt pretty comfortable with the whole thing but still needed quite a bit of prompting from the Flight Instructor. Im guessing this is something that will come with time.

Hi,All of us that use the ATC system have been there, and yes- it does come with time. Don't be too hard on yourself :), and most controllers (at least smaller Class D airports) are great with newbies. It gets a bit tougher with Approach and Center controllers as they expect quite a lot, but I'm assuming it will be some time before you get to that stage :).God luck, and if I can be of any help, just e-mail [email protected]

Its actually a Class-C airport so I do have to deal with approach but Im glad im getting that experience now rather then later. Yesterdays flight did give me a lot of respect for pilots though. I was trying to head back to the airport, do the descent checklist, and do the comms all at the same time. I was expecting to look up from the checklist heading straight into the water!

Be glad you are at a Class C airport. You will learn to fly and talk all at once. I learned at an uncontrolled airport, and then had become proficient at comms later.Congradulations on getting selected for flight school. I flew with some guys in that program at my local airport. All have done well in Pensacola.Dennis

"I was expecting to look up from the checklist heading straight into the water! "Aviate, then Navigate, then finally Communicate. This will always keep you out of trouble :)Bruce.