Change ATC phraseology from "decimal" to "point"

This topic first appeared in the General MSFS 2020 forum.  There have been several members suggests this tip be also posted here in the MSFS Tips and Tricks forum. So doing so now.

Following on from the directions for the eliminating the constant ATC “please expedite” commands, as provided earlier by Jim Brown and DJJose in the MSFS (2020) forum topic “ATC Voice Gone”, I did some additional experimenting and came up with a solution for those of us who have wished to vanquish ATC’s use of “decimal” and instead use “point”.  I was successful.  Here is how to accomplish that.

If you are comfortable editing text files using notepad (or notepad++, sublime text, etc.), it's pretty straightforward.

1. Navigate to the fs-base folder in the official/steam or official/onestore folder.
2. Backup the en-US.locPak file.
3. Open en-US.locPak in your text editor.
4. Search for the string " ATCCOM.POINT ". You should find two lines with that string.
5. Change only the second of those lines to replace the text “ DECIMAL “ with  “ POINT ”.  Note there is a space between the word and each quote mark.
6. Save the file.

The original lines look like this:

  "ATCCOM.POINT.0.text": ".",
  "ATCCOM.POINT.0.tts": " DECIMAL ",

When done, the two lines should look like this:

  "ATCCOM.POINT.0.text": ".",
  "ATCCOM.POINT.0.tts": " POINT ",

Now instead of hearing for example “contact departure at one two four decimal eight”,  those of us who wish can instead hear “contact departure at one two four point eight”

Edited March 10, 20224 yr by fppilot