I just started using RadarController. Nice AddOn and I'm sure it will be an educating thing for me. I have 2 questions to you:1) I find it difficult to hear/understand/take hold of the message from FSS & ATC. Do I have to get used to "catch" the message and write it down or is there another posibility such as getting the message written down on the screen?2) The Departure and Destination Airports are mentioned by their ICAO codes. This is not the case in the ATC in FS2004. How is the airport identified in the ATC chat in the real world - By real name or by ICAO code? And if its done by real name in the real world and by ICAO code in RadarController would it be an issue to solve in the next version 4 of RadarController? (it would make things a lot easier to understand and more realistic!!)Kind RegardsLars Frederiksen

Regarding the the audio being displayed as text, that should be one of the options by right clicking on the advdisp window as far as I recall. I use it because I do have some hearing difficulty.You also have the option to slow down the delivery by choosing the correct level of sound acceleration in the DX properties. I use basic + 1. You can run dxdiag to set it or you can use the advanced property settings for your video card which should include an audio performance tab.Regarding using airport names as opposed to ICAO codes, that has already been answered here in the forum as a production decision. Because RC uses its own audio files, it would be a huge audio library to produce all the names with different accents and the people producing audio just do not have the time. The existing speech is collected phrases made up of instructions and representation of each alphanumeric character. The correct order is concocted at playback time.The number of airport names would include even the smallest of IFR airports and the scope is international. Some could be easily overlooked.

1) you should write it down, that is what real world pilot's do. if you leave com1 tuned to atis, he will repeat it every 30 seconds2) we couldn't record the names of every airport, so we call each airport by icao codejd

Hi "ronzie" !I've tried dxdiagn.exe and find it a little better when I set the sound acceleration down to basic. Also I read the posibility of getting the message repeated by using "CS/" (RTFM!). Everything helps, and probably it's also a question of getting used to the phraeses in the ATC-chatting.Thanks for your answerLars

FS200x can manage to announce the airport names. I wonder if there is a piece of software which can generate the airport-name as text to a speech wav file. In this way RadarControl could generate the Departure and Destination airport as speech when the flightplan is loaded. Maybe that was a solution? Just an idea!I do not hope that you folks at RadarControl misunderstand this, it's just a suggestion!And thank you for a very fine program! Best RegardsLars

I'll bet a text to speech program would fail because of the international nature and spelling of airport names. A database spelled phoneticly would be necessary to handle this. It would require an extra field in the airport database and add another load to the processor.By the way for me it is only necessary to write down the clearance as delivered usually the initial altitude, heading if given, and, of course, the squawk code. The rest I already have from my flight plan printout. I might also jot down the expected arrival runway (if I guessed wrong based on weather) when announced as I rush to pull the plate out.I also programmed the "=" key as the repeat to avoid multiple keystrokes for that menu item. It was not used for anything else in my setup.