Well my CD arrived yesterday morning and I've just made my first flight with V3. I flew "Speedbird 8" - a 747-400 from RJAA to EGLL.It's fantastic! Much better than V2.2 in every single respect! Congratulations to all the RC team for producing a great addon. :)I only have one complaint, and it's a very small one... throughout the flight I just made my pilot was using the wrong callsign. Instead of "Speedbird" he was saying "British Airways".Anyway, I suppose I had better read the manual now ;) Cheers :-beerchug

Yes I noticed this too ...Bit of a shame, but I'm sure we could just change the pilots voice ... :)Regards,Wac :)

Hi Nick,I thought we had fixed that problem.Which pilot are you using?If it's the default you could check in the RC3winwood1 folder and play the file british.wav.You 'should' hear Speedbird.If not I'm sure we can get the correct file to you.All the best,John

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John,I noticed the problem too, and I was using the default pilot (jd?). The co-pilot and any controllers I've heared said "speedbird" correctly. The winwood1british.wav is definitely wrong.Ian

I noticed that the default pilot has a whole number of flaws anyway. It is *not* ok to say "We'll do all that" in response to a lengthy approach clearance. "2200 until established, heading 235, cleared for the approach, American 225" would be better. See AIM 4-4-6 athttp://www1.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIM/Chap4/aim0404.html#4-4-6One of the other things I noticed were contacts after handoffs. The term "is with you" is not necessary and only serves to waste bandwidth, because it's obvious that you are "with" the controller, otherwise he wouldn't hear you. That time would be better spent saying "LEVEL at".See AIM 5-3-1 :( at http://www1.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIM/Chap5/aim0503.html#5-3-1I realize you hear all sorts of macho slang in real ATC, but machoism frequently introduces sloppyness, which can be unsafe. Some people are using RCV3 to learn something about how to behave in a real ATC environment. Setting bad examples isn't helping any!-Florian

Nick,The problem of British Airways being spoken instead of Speedbird only applies to the Winwood1 sub-folder and is stored in britsh.wav. I noticed this when beta testing and received a corrected wav file but unfortunately it was too late for the gold version.JD or Scott,Can we make this wav file available on Scott's web site please and point people to it? They could then download the extra RC3 wav files available there.Cheers,

>Can we make this wav file available on Scott's web site >please and point people to it? They could then download the >extra RC3 wav files available there. >Yes please! Good idea, and I for one would love to swap over to the correct callsign. Is it possible to use (renamed of course) the "Speedbird" WAV from the V2.2 version?Cheers,Paul

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see a post from larrytmo who is a swivel head at kord.i posted a fix to "all that" problem to a post from geoffa. simply a matter of deleting a wav, and copying another wav file into the filename that you just deleted. so you can fix that if you want.i'm glad these are our only problems ;-)

Paul,Try copying (and if necessary, renaming) the v2.2 file to britsh.wav and see if it solves the problem. I don't have 2.2 installed anymore so I can't check.If that doesn't work for whatever reason e-mail me at [email protected] and I'll send it to you.Cheers,

Thanks Ray, very kind. Will try the 2.2 file and let you know!Cheers,Paul

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Thanks for all the info everyone. Just to echo what was said earlier, all the other controllers and pilots say "Speedbird". It's just the default pilot who says "British Airways".Cheers.

Check out the RCv3 Page on the FlightSim Flight Deck][/b for wav upddates and any other added/supplementary files for RCV3.Update 01 fixes JD's "British Airways" and a couple other issues, like naming centers in Canada and Australia correctly.But the Beta Testers should have known that! ;-)

i knew that :-lol

Yo Scott!Thanks for the info. I didn't have the other updated wavs so I must have missed your message in the group. I'm glad someone's on the ball! ;-)Cheers,

Ray,Well wavs are my life...or is that making waves? It's one of the two. ;-)