I stand corrected, Lloyd. That is a surprise to me.

ATC has got a ton of issues, bugs and just general lack of functionality.  Basically just go VFR and ignore it and fly your own plan.

I noticed (at least for me) that the no audio bug is back and worse than ever.  They regularly talk to me, but they make no sound, so it is easy to miss a command.

I fly IFR 99% of the time but I gave up on using ATC. It has certainly improved in some things, but it has some absurd flaws for the level it should aspire to.

The last bug is the one I understand the least. As usual I choose real callsigns based on the flight I do and it has always worked.

Last 2 flights:

SHAMROCK 669 - ATC says  just OCK
EASY 5466 - ATC says 5466 1123

As someone already said, tree is the correct pronunciation for the letter three. The letters thr can come across as garbled in a radio (where it's hard to understand what people are saying to begin with) where tr will be a lot clearer.

2 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

When you hear the number "three" being pronounced as "tree" here, there and everywhere.....you know that the voices are not real.

Irish.

 

3 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

When you hear the number "three" being pronounced as "tree" here, there and everywhere.....you know that the voices are not real.

Actually, three is supposed to be pronounced as "Tree".   It's covered in your radio instruction and test when doing your PPL (or it was on mine - in the UK - 15 years ago).   Same as "niner" for 'nine'.

So Asobo have coded that realistically. 

Edited December 27, 20232 yr by JYW

5 minutes ago, JYW said:

Actually, three is supposed to be pronounced as "Tree".   It's covered in your radio instruction and test when doing your PPL (or it was on mine - in the UK - 15 years ago).   Same as "niner" for 'nine'.

So Asobo have coded that realistically. 

I gather it's roundly mocked in the community because vanishingly few pilots actually use the 'tree' pronunciation in real life.

14 minutes ago, CoolDude said:

I gather it's roundly mocked in the community because vanishingly few pilots actually use the 'tree' pronunciation in real life.

I think in this case, it was mocked because the mockers weren't aware of it 😉

I was trained to use the phonetic numbers (in the '70s) and always did throughout my RW flying years.  I never had any corrections or talk-back from controllers re: these pronunciations.

It is my understanding, after discussing this with a number of current flyers, that the phonetics are rarely used in the US today but are still common when flying in foreign airspaces.  When a pilot in the US does use a phonetic pronunciation controllers will usually mirror them, especially with letter identifiers.

8 hours ago, kerosene31 said:

I noticed (at least for me) that the no audio bug is back and worse than ever.  They regularly talk to me, but they make no sound, so it is easy to miss a command.

You could try to use Com2 only with the default ATC. A while back someone mentioned about this and for me, it works. Even when I forget about it and halfway the flight the ATC goes silent, when I switch to Com2 the voices come back online.

"niner" is very common here in the US. "Tree" less so, but not at all unusual.  The most unusual is probably "fower."  Not sure I've ever heard anyone doing that (well, outside of the South 😉 ).