Multi Crew Experience Update

Excellent Program for Flight Simulator. It's like having an entire crew to command and help fly.  I especially like the VOX Key which allows you to control actions with your voice that you would normally have to press a key on the keyboard.

In short: MCE is a fantastic add-on for all major flight simulation platforms. A real must-have.

I have been using MCE for several years now, when piloting my PMDG 737NGX (one of the many planes supported). Verbal commands, issued through a vocabulary so wide and flexible as to mimic real-life conversation, allow directing your FO to act on any knob/switch/control in the cockpit. A professional pilot, “he” will execute orders, confirm his actions when appropriate and even execute, on request, complete SOP flows with/without step-by-step verbal feedback. A full team member, even with a touch of personality (across different FO voices, all available free).

Beside carrying out specific orders, the FO can even discreetly suggest or remind his Captain of actions to be taken (if so desired).

When on cruise, at times I find myself chatting with William (my preferred FO voice); he can be at times witty, or sharp when appropriate. No need for rigidly-formatted phrasing to be memorized here, quite the opposite.

This program makes simulation in a big liner, or other complex plane, literally a REAL and immersive experience.

Over time, after understanding the actual potential under the MCE hood, I started programming my own procedures (simple and straightforward: mostly a sequence of the same verbal commands, plus the option of adding spoken comments by the FO and additional sounds or messages by the crew). Sample procedures are available in MCE, but it is a very easy and enjoyable exercise to modify them or create new ones to your own liking or needs. My full set of flows is available on AVSIM.

In addition, an internal option - VoxKey - allows to script (and then verbally execute) keypresses, thus adding the flexibility of a “verbal” keyboard (and its shortcuts) to an already super-flexible add-on. Amazing.

In more detail, a few aspects of MCE I appreciate most:

- its unique ability to create and control a voice-operated next-to-real (with a wide freedom of vocabulary) FO next to you, a  professional helping his Captain the way he should: answering questions, executing orders and SOP flows.

- the fact that one can delegate to the FO what - in real life - is his exclusive area of responsibility around the cockpit, again followin SOPs and Boeing (or other manufacturer/airline) standards;

- the ability to simply forget - if desired - about mouse and keyboard throughout a flight. The hands of the Captain are free to rest on the yoke/stick, plus operating the stick controls (or for drinking coffee). Once again, stunning realism;

- its capability to deal with ATC (native, PF3);

- the verbal breadth of its available vocabulary, with hundreds of command variants which allow an almost fre-speech communication with the FO;

- the possibility to customize fully any command flow in the cockpit. You are the limit to realism and immersion;

- its robust design, operating outside the running simulator (no sim glitches, prone to misunderstanings or downright failures).

A demo is available, give it a try (you'll be hooked)!

Giorgio

to add ...... your co-pilot can be a TTS voice, not necessarily an MCE included one.

so if you use an ATC (off-line) addon such as P2A or VoxATC (& not the mentioned ATC), you can also have the same copilot for "all".

Yes, thank you for the clarification!

It's similar to A320 Crew from Fs2crew? Only voice version or button?

3 hours ago, FS++ said:

MCE was built from the ground up for Full interactive crew simulation using voice.

It isn't a button based product that was ported to speech by replacing a button press with a single trigger sentence.

Thanks for the information! 

Assistance required.

I'd really like to try MCE before purchase but can't seem to download the demo version. The link on the website is not working?

I may be wrong but there seems to be no current posts or updates?

I am genuinely interested in MCE, please advise.

Cheers, BB  (Win11, X-Plane12+, VR - HP Reverb G2, FF A320, Toliss A321/319, Aerobask Phenom & Pilot2ATC