I have been using PF3 and MCE for awhile. Last week I decided to buy a new headphone/mic set.   Everything worked fine till the mic died. I used a hand mic for a few days but PF3 would not respond to any voice commands (no text on the screen) yet MCE heard me fine. I purchased a new headphone/mic today and ran it through the tests and the mic works fine.  When I run MCE and PF3 the FO hears me fine but nothing is going through to PF3. I don't see any text on my screen when I key the mic but I hear the noise indicating the PTT key is working.

I've adjusted mic volume and it works fine in windows and MCE its just seems to be unresponsive to PF3 (the key commands to PF3 work).

Any ideas would be appreciated. Seems I spend more time getting these programs to work than flying.

Thanks

Doug

 

1 hour ago, navops said:

I have been using PF3 and MCE for awhile. Last week I decided to buy a new headphone/mic set.   Everything worked fine till the mic died. I used a hand mic for a few days but PF3 would not respond to any voice commands (no text on the screen) yet MCE heard me fine. I purchased a new headphone/mic today and ran it through the tests and the mic works fine.  When I run MCE and PF3 the FO hears me fine but nothing is going through to PF3. I don't see any text on my screen when I key the mic but I hear the noise indicating the PTT key is working.

I've adjusted mic volume and it works fine in windows and MCE its just seems to be unresponsive to PF3 (the key commands to PF3 work).

Any ideas would be appreciated. Seems I spend more time getting these programs to work than flying.

Thanks

Doug

 

Go to <ATC> tab and make sure you have switches it to PF3 ATC.

Could you post a screenshot of the <About> tab in MCE user interface?

Thanks

 

MCE is set to PF3 for ATC.

I can't figure out how to post the jpeg.

Thanks

Doug

 

 

 

While I was sitting here I tried to do the speech training for MCE. It keeps saying this:

"Speech training is not configured properly. Please go to the Speech Recognition Control Panel, click on Advanced Options and set Microsoft Speech Recognizer 8.0 for your system language as default recognizer."

When I go there it is already set and it is the only choice.

But without the training MCE First Officer responds to commands.

Doug

32 minutes ago, navops said:

While I was sitting here I tried to do the speech training for MCE. It keeps saying this:

"Speech training is not configured properly. Please go to the Speech Recognition Control Panel, click on Advanced Options and set Microsoft Speech Recognizer 8.0 for your system language as default recognizer."

When I go there it is already set and it is the only choice.

But without the training MCE First Officer responds to commands.

Doug

OK, it appears you aren't running the most recent MCE version.

Speech trainer has stopped after Microsoft released the Windows 10 creators update.

Upgrade to latest here

 

Okay.

I updated to the latest version.

Bought a quality headset and mic.

Checked PTT key on joystick and it works

My FO hears me fine on the mic

PFS responds to both key commands and the FO.

Still not able as pilot to talk to ATC myself.

Thanks,

Doug

 

 

33 minutes ago, navops said:

Okay.

I updated to the latest version.

Bought a quality headset and mic.

Checked PTT key on joystick and it works

My FO hears me fine on the mic

PFS responds to both key commands and the FO.

Still not able as pilot to talk to ATC myself.

Thanks,

Doug

 

 

Are you flying IFR or VFR?

Are you always using the same callsign? which one?

Do you have any experience with ATC jargon?

Give an example of messages you're trying to transmit. Don't worry if they are completely wrong. Just need to check whether the ATC grammar has them covered.