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Sorry for late response. I have tested: The dome light consists of two lights, one for captain and one for FO. dome light on: says "lights on", does not flip switch, both lights do not go on. Turned on the lights manually, then: dome light off: says "lights off", does not flip switch, light for captain goes out. light for FO remains on. Would be nice if FO could be trained to handle these.

Good afternoon. Is there any news on those interior lights? Dome light Overhead integrated panel lights Flood lights etc It is quite unrealistic that he cannot set these lights. Would be appreciated if he could manage those.

That would be appreciated a lot. Thank you.

Hello Gerald, Pls can you advise, from my table, for the ones where the voice command was not recognized an example of a working command for that action or let me know there is no command for that action? For the ones where the command was accepted but there was no resulting action, pls can you help to get it working or pls let me know if that is not in scope for that action? Pls note that I do not mind if something was not modeled. I assume there are many of those. I would like to get the ones working that should work. Kind regards, Daniel

Thanks for your response. To create your own command you first need to know a command that does work. This is where my problem often is. Your guidance on how to word asking for more light has helped, however as you can see in my table below nothing happened. I wish I would have a listing as the below for all switches with just a single example command that does work or a note it is not modelled. It would make my life with MCE a lot easier and fun. I do have this list with first three columns if you are willing to help. Area Panel Commands Result Right Instrument Panel ground proximity and glide slope warning lights push your ground proximity light button MCE does not recognize command Right Instrument Panel ground proximity and glide slope warning lights push your glideslope warning button MCE does not recognize command Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel more navigation display brightness Command accepted but nothing happened Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel less navigation display brightness Command accepted but nothing happened Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel more weather and terrain brightness Command accepted but nothing happened Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel less weather and terrain brightness Command accepted but nothing happened Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel push the first officer p f d n d transfer button Intentionally not modelled MCE Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel more primary flight display brightness Command accepted but nothing happened Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel less primary flight display brightness Command accepted but nothing happened Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel dim your console and floor lighting MCE does not recognize command Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel brighten your console and floor lighting MCE does not recognize command Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel switch off your console and floor lighting MCE does not recognize command Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel increase first officer loud speaker INOP Right Instrument Panel pfd and nd lighting control panel decrease first officer loud speaker INOP

Good evening, I am back to FBW A32NX. Trying to complile flows so that my first officer will follow the FBW provided SOP. My question is about the interior lighting setup. The SOP calls for him to set lighting but I wonder to what extend he can help here. [I wanted to paste a snip of the section from the SOP here but don't know how to do that] These are the things I have tested: Right Instrument Panel but none of these are recognized by MCE. Does MCE suport this panel at all? increase first officer n d brightness decrease first officer n d brightness increase first officer weather and terrain brightness decrease first officer weather and terrain brightness push the first officer p f d n d transfer button increase first officer p f d brightness decrease first officer p f d brightness set first officer console and floor lighting to dim set first officer console and floor lighting to bright set first officer console and floor lighting to off I have also tested the Dome light: dome light dim Saying he does but nothing happens dome light bright Command not accepted by MCE dome light off Turns off the light but does not move the switch The A32NX was the plane that was loaded first when the sim was started and I have started MCE after the plane was fully loaded. All LVARS and HVARS were accounted for. Hope you can help.

Thanks Gerald, Will look at this.

Thank you and will do. Daniel

Hi Gerald and David, Gerald, Thanks for the updates. I hope you did not mind my question regarding the roadmap. I think MCE is a great program already, which is why I am spending time on it and am talking to you. Yes, I do also feel that there is room for improvement, besides supporting more planes, but of course it is fully up to you if that is what you want to do. By the way I would gladly renew my license at a certain price for MCE 2.0 if that would bring innovation to the table. I will have less time now as the workling life begins again, but after the update, I will review and submit the remaining questions. David, MCE is very powerful indeed and I have flown the PMDG 737 too. Looking forward to have it in MSFS. Regarding ATC, I have played a little with VOX ATC in past, but the fact that these progs do not also manage the AI planes is killing the immersion for me. I know MSFS is working on it (voice controlled I believe too) and hope it will be good (enough)..at some point. Such briefings are good as they happen in the real plane too. Good for the immersion! Take care. Wish you both all the best every day of the year. Regards, Daniel

Regarding this challenge/response request I will write up the exact wording I would like and will get back with specifics asks. Regarding my other requests in the other thread, pls can you fix the broken links, e.g. yellow hydraulic pump etc. Also in that thread were some requests regarding actions that FO should do stuff based on things he knows our can be told earlier. Would like to hear what is possible. Lastly and unrelated to anything asked so far, I am very curious to hear what the roadmap is for MCE for 2022. Any development plans? 😊 Have a great day Daniel

Thanks for your comments David, I have as I have done a tiny bit of programming (VBA). Just enough to be dangerous probably! My goal is to capture bits and pieces of the dialogue that would happen between a Cap and his FO, outside of the checklists. I used the altimeter, but perhaps better would have used the constraints setting as it is not directly part of a checklist. No, as that would be proper check list handling. I am trying to capture the cockpit preparation phase which in A320 they aparently do together for the most part (except overhead and MCDU). We can program a lot of dialogue with many little vox scripts, but that gets tedious and he cannot speak variables as he does not know them, hence the ask for some challenge/response functionality, but outside running the checklist. Inside vox script would be great. With the _ functionality I even would not have to remember an exact phrase Gerald would have to tell us. I believe a whole lot of the FBW can be read. They probably do break some stuff sometimes too. What I am asking for is perhaps MCE 2.0 🙂 I agree, when everything is working, MCE is the best you can get now except from having somebody sitting next to you. Regards, Daniel

Hi David, Always welcome to join in with your views and experience! The biggest I have flown is a Metroliner - 20 years ago. Not in aviation anymore, but an enthusiast. What I am trying to do is to get as close as possible to real world operations. Flows and Checklists are the cornerstone of what happens in the cockpit, but there is also dialogue with variables spoken back by the FO. In my studying of the A320 flows I have seen that a big part of the cokcpit preparation scan the PF does is done when both pilots are seated, they then do the glareshield scan together and set it up, so later when doing the checklist they can confirm 'completed'. This is not silent, they talk to each other (I assume, so correct me if this is wrong). This part is not what MCE is designed for, but when able I would like to include a lot of it if possible. One way to be able to do this is to be able to add some challenge response type of dialogue in a voxscript and the PF should be the one that speaks the challenges. To program this you could add - above requested - options that can be set per checklist (like we have for voxscript) or add some functionality in voxscript itself. We have Notify/Pause/Sound commands, so a challenge/respond command should perhaps be doable too. (?) Just thinking out loud here! Example for when they discuss the altimeter setting, the voxscript item could be: [PF]=_ setting left -- _ setting right [PF]= indicates challenge response type where PF speaks the challenge _ setting left --> per regular checklist functionality _ setting right --> per regular checklist functionality, but FO will speak "right" This means the voxscript is halted until the PF has spoken "setting left" The next item in the flow could be the voxkey item where FO presses B to set his altimeter (I know currently both alitimeters are linked, but asume at some point this will be fixed) I hope the above makes a bit more clear what I am looking for. 🙂 Kind regards, Daniel

one more... I know request the request for a non voice initiated flow has been made before, but please allow me to try again. As you know the after start flow starts when the captain sets the mode selector to normal. We do not want the flow to start mid air, so perhaps when combined with the FMGC in preflight phase this could work?

Good evening, FO has a silent before start flow. Part of the flow is to close his window. Part of his default action for this is to counter and tell me to close my window too. I tried several variants, all with the same result. Is there a similar command that will allow him to silently close his window without telling me what to do? Talks a lot, Enable nagging and Can hear minor insults have been deselected. Part of his after start flow is to set flaps for takeoff. Can he read the correct setting from the MCDU? or can I tell him - as part of the briefing - what the flap setting will be, so that he knows what to set them to? And as we are on it, he also needs to set the trim to the takeoff position. Same questions apply as for the flaps. He accepts "reset elevator trim", but he says he will set them to neutral and will not do anything. Either way, I need him to set them to the takeoff position. Kind regards, Daniel

Thank you Gerald, Another thing that I have learned by crawling the forum is that with the "_ set" combined with the "//3" instruction, the FO will repeat the whole thing as if he was checking it himself. So if I say "three zero zero zero set", he will repeat "three zero zero zero set". Very cool! Is there an option to run a checklist, but prevent that FO starts with saying e.g. "Glareshield checklist" and that he does not end the checklist with saying "Glareshield checklist completed"? I triggered this checklist from a silent flow. Is there also an option that at the end of the checklist he continues where he was in that flow? I know that I could put a Pause=x statement in the flow, which would probably work, but better would be if he could go back to the flow at the end or if I could add a go to x flow statement (thus breaking the flow in multipe parts). Basically what I am trying to do is to setup a whole procedure where flow items and unofficial checklist items follow one another in one big event. When watched on Youtube the viewer would not notice breaks between flow items and such checklist items, but see it as one big conversation where certain items are checked by both. I hope with this you know what I am trying to do. Kind regards, Daniel