Hi Everybody,

I see beta 5 has been released.
 

Known Errors
General
We are still having occasional out of memory issues when using AMD graphic cards. We are in contact with AMD to resolve this as soon as possible.

Fixes and Enhancements
General
Fixed crash in DRM popup when the demo period expires
ATC
Changed ATIS phrase “sky clear” to “no significant cloud” if high clouds exists, as “sky clear” means that there are no clouds at any altitude
Add “Blue Islands Limited” to the airline list of the ATC flight planner (XPD-16331)
Fixed various crashes
Aircraft
Improved the Honeywell FMS to allow just one single flap setting for take-off, to allow better integration with add-ons

Edited December 12, 20241 yr by Mike_CFII_MEL

Also added quiet a number of new controller voices, hence the large size.

6 hours ago, mjrhealth said:

Also added quiet a number of new controller voices, hence the large size.

I always seem to have the same two voices no matter where I am (A US female and UK male)? Is this working correctly for anyone else or is there something I need to configure?

10 hours ago, tonywob said:

I always seem to have the same two voices no matter where I am (A US female and UK male)? Is this working correctly for anyone else or is there something I need to configure?

There are only two voices for the pilot. ATC controllers depend on the region and voice selection is made by a throw of the dice.

See Resources/default scenery/1200 atc data/voices.

4 hours ago, Bjoern said:

There are only two voices for the pilot

Yep. They dont seem to have added any other options for that yet

On 12/13/2024 at 9:19 PM, Bjoern said:

There are only two voices for the pilot. ATC controllers depend on the region and voice selection is made by a throw of the dice.

 

I’m actually referring to the controllers. It feels like I’m always hearing the same two voices everywhere. Across much of Europe, every ATC position seems to use the same British or American voice. While I see plenty of voices downloaded, there doesn’t seem to be much variation in what’s actually being used within the EU. Possibly I'm expecting too much and I'd feel it more if I left the continent 

18 hours ago, tonywob said:

I’m actually referring to the controllers. It feels like I’m always hearing the same two voices everywhere. Across much of Europe, every ATC position seems to use the same British or American voice. While I see plenty of voices downloaded, there doesn’t seem to be much variation in what’s actually being used within the EU. Possibly I'm expecting too much and I'd feel it more if I left the continent 

Regional assignments are defined in "Resources/default scenery/1200 atc data/library.txt" and there are five different voices assigned to Europe. Looking at their zip files, none of these seem to be geared to any particular task in the controller chain, so I guess it's down to bad random picks.

The voices are from the Ivona TTS system, by the way: https://nextup.com/ivona/