Hi, I've noticed that MCE is now available for the Inibuilds A300. I've been holding off buying the A300 because of a lack of virtual crew (I find flying airliners solo a total immersion killer). I'm a long time user of FS2Crew and since they don't support the A300, I thought I'd give MCE a go. But I have a couple of questions. 

One of the main things for me is that I can use a button to command checklists and flows. I'm wondering how this works with MCE. Does one hear the voice of the captain say the command? For example, "before start checklist please" or does the FO simply execute the command at the touch of the button without hearing the captains voice. 

I'd also like to ask if the product comes with a manual or document that details the specific flows or actions for each crew member? As someone who is new to the A300, I'd like to know what items the captain is responsible for in the cockpit at each stage of the flight and what things the FO will take care of. 

Thanks.

5 hours ago, james42 said:

Hi, I've noticed that MCE is now available for the Inibuilds A300. I've been holding off buying the A300 because of a lack of virtual crew (I find flying airliners solo a total immersion killer). I'm a long time user of FS2Crew and since they don't support the A300, I thought I'd give MCE a go. But I have a couple of questions. 

One of the main things for me is that I can use a button to command checklists and flows. I'm wondering how this works with MCE. Does one hear the voice of the captain say the command? For example, "before start checklist please" or does the FO simply execute the command at the touch of the button without hearing the captains voice. 

I'd also like to ask if the product comes with a manual or document that details the specific flows or actions for each crew member? As someone who is new to the A300, I'd like to know what items the captain is responsible for in the cockpit at each stage of the flight and what things the FO will take care of. 

Thanks.

Hello James.

These days, in MSFS, MCE has both "Voice Control" and "Button Control" for those who want a "passive crew experience" like press a button and get things done and listen to the crew, or perhaps to afraid to speak English.

The UI has 3 buttons on the top left corner,

F for flows

C for Checklist

R for request.

You can trigger a flow by clicking the F button (and eventually click a second time to cancel it). Tie a joystick button to that button and you can do that without needing the user interface.

Click C button to request checklist reading (and eventually click a second time to cancel reading). Tie a joystick button to that button and use the latter to trigger CL

The R button will show a list of actions the crew can perform, like request to strat engines, etcc.

Users happy with voice control never touch those buttons.

Unlike the other crew simulation, MCE computes the flight phase automatically so won't need to monitor the user interaface to see in which mode you are.

In Button control, all actions are scripted in advance and all you will be able to do is remove some from the flow if you want a more hands on scenario.

Checklist is also set in advance so the button will always trigger the relevant section for the flight phase.

 

But if you jump into the world of "Voice Control", you will undertsnad why MCE is the choice of the professionals.

You can ask the crew (co-pilot. MEchanic, Purser) what you want, when you want and even using own speech if you can't be bothered to memorize the trifgger sentences or the tens of thousands of built-in speech commands.

You can use custom checklist from own airline in Voice Control mode.

May want to read this thread applies to all fully supported planes.

 

And this one shows you how you can teach the crew to understand ANY speech in ANY language or simply "your own speech".

 

 

 

Edited July 21, 20241 yr by FS++

I've taken the plunge and purchased MCE with the A300. I believe I've gotten everything installed correctly but I've ran into a problem. I load the A300 on the tarmac and attempt to load MCE, but I get a message asking me to restart the flight (not the simulator) and restart MCE. I've tried this multiple times but message keeps popping up. I've tried running the MCE exe as admin but that hasn't worked. I'm not sure what to try next.  

1 hour ago, james42 said:

I've taken the plunge and purchased MCE with the A300. I believe I've gotten everything installed correctly but I've ran into a problem. I load the A300 on the tarmac and attempt to load MCE, but I get a message asking me to restart the flight (not the simulator) and restart MCE. I've tried this multiple times but message keeps popping up. I've tried running the MCE exe as admin but that hasn't worked. I'm not sure what to try next.  

First, welcome aboard.

Might be to do with most recent update to Inibuild plane. At least one user reported issue with dialling VHF (after plane update) via e-mail.

This sort of thing happended with other planes before and is usually connected to the plane removing or renaming Lvars and the tally doesn't add-up

No worries though, changes will be worked out within a couple of days.

The package for A310/A300-600 hasn't been updated for a while. This is an opportunity to do so now.

Meanwhile, I suggest the following...which might get you going

Set the A310 as the plane MSFS loads on startup (the last plane you flew would be the one to be loaded next. So make sure it's the A310.

Restart MSFS, wait until aircraft has completed loading, on tarmac ready to go in any state, then start MCE using the desktop icon.

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All sorted now. The new .exe I was sent got everything working. Looking forward to leaning my way around MCE. Thanks for the help and ill report back if I have any further issues.