Hi. This may be contrary to what MCE is all about but I mostly fly GA aircraft and would like to control ATC and the radios myself.
What do I have to do in the MSFS settings and MCE to make this work? You will gather I am very new to MCE.
Thank you for any advice.

Hi John,

 

I have also recent started to use MCE for training my self to speak to ATC.

When flying GA, just when you start flight and MCE, make sure you have "co-pilot can handle the radio if busy" switched off.

Also before getting in touch with ATC tell him that you handle the radios. He should not be interfering then and communication with ATC is all yours. 

Just remember, if you will ask him to reply to ATC or request something from it, he will take charge of ATC again and you will nee to take it back.

And for the other things like autopilot, flaps or gear, just don't ask him anything and it will be all yours also.

Personally for me with MSFS it doesn't work well. Sometimes frequencies on arrival keeps changing by it self. And I found out, that those frequencies are from P3D data base.

It works very well with P3D. But I am not sure hot to set MCE to read data from MSFS.

Hope that helps, enjoy your GA flying.

 

Viktor.

15 hours ago, johnfarrar said:

Hi. This may be contrary to what MCE is all about but I mostly fly GA aircraft and would like to control ATC and the radios myself.
What do I have to do in the MSFS settings and MCE to make this work? You will gather I am very new to MCE.
Thank you for any advice.

Which ATC system? Native, Radar Contact or PF3 ATC?

Do you have hardware dialling gear like Go-Flight module or similar?

 

Sorry FS++ Using just MCE as i thought it could do the job for me. I do have PF3 but thought I would bring that into play later.  I have 2 Logitech panels. Radio and AP.

22 minutes ago, johnfarrar said:

Sorry FS++ Using just MCE as i thought it could do the job for me. I do have PF3 but thought I would bring that into play later.  I have 2 Logitech panels. Radio and AP.

OK, I suggest the following....

In "General" tab disable all features except "Talk to ATC controllers". You'll have to handle all ATC requests and acknowledgments as well as dialling.

There is a little advertized feature for VFR flights you can take advantage of but right now only enabled in Prepar3D, FSX or FS9. Mighty be extended to MSFS later

With previous simulators, MCE has the ability to monitor events like clicking radios to tune frequencies. It can also do that with some hardware modules (Go flight or other panels).

When flying VFR and you're transferred to another center, approach or tower, in your case youi'd be dialling the new freq yourself. After a timeout (something like 3 seconds or higher if you wish to customize it), MCE assumes you're done dialling and will try to match what you've dialled to a number of available freqs in database that are within 200 miles. It will then cycle through the ATC menu, automatically select "Nearest airport list", go through the various pages of available airports and select the one it thinks is the one you would be contacting soon, so that you can start transmitting without having to manually interact with the ATC menu.

 

Thank you for your reply and advice. I will try what you suggest. Cheers.