DanDaMan

Hey Paul, Just jumping on this topic -- what if you are running a weather engine like REX? I use REX and is starts fsx.exe, so I am required to go through the FSX user interface to load a saved flight. My flights load with the configuration intact, but flights that are in cruise seem to take too long to initialize and I lose a decent amount of altitude and stability before I take control. Is there a recommendation for loading saved flights when FSX is started by another process? Thanks for your insight -

Thanks. I've been using VoxPop for a while now, but most of my flights are in North America, so the European accents aren't immersive enough for me anymore. It looks like Ivona is still the best choice for payware voice packs ... However, I can't find any with static filters other than VoxPop.

If you have at least one SID and one STAR waypoint in your plan, then Vox ATC is supposed to be able to use the Level-D navdata to figure it out.

Hi, I've looked through the forum and Ivona appears to be the best option for controller voices with Vox ATC. Has anyone found any other good options, and perhaps an option that has static/filter built in? Just checking in with others before I make the Ivona purchase. Thanks!

Hi - in FSBuild, the "Exclude SID/STAR" option should be on or off? I've always kept it off and entered the SID/STAR into FSBuild before building the flight plan, but perhaps that's not correct. I thought that information needed to be in the plan for Vox ATC to give me the correct SID/STAR, but maybe it's smarter than that. Thoughts?

Got it - will experiment with that, just to see what happens. Thanks!

I set the "No vectors to approach" option for my flight plan and Vox ATC worked fine. It did not give me any heading changes. It just gave me altitude changes on the decent that lined up well with the STAR, and it cleared me to land as expected, then I was able to fly the approach to the localizer with no issue. I did try this phrase several times on my descent, just to see what would happen: Say "<callsign> request full ils runway <rwy> approach" However, Vox ATC kept responding with "Unable to at this time".

Riccardo - Thanks for your feedback. My flight plan is from FSBuild and I'm loading the route into the FMC using the FSBuild-exported flight plan, so perhaps that's the issue. Ugh! That will be frustrating for longer routes, but perhaps PFPX will solve the problem. I will try loading manually and see if that works - stay tuned. Any idea what the issue is with FSBuild-exported flight plan files? I'd be happy to try and manually fix the file if there's a known change that can be made - maybe a simple format problem? Craig - Thanks for your feedback. When you create your flight, what's your default panel state ... cold & dark? And can you save ONCE *before* takeoff, or does the one save have to happen *after* takeoff?

Hi Kyle, Thanks for your feedback. Yes, I double-checked and FSX is configured to start with a different default aircraft (Ultralight), and I've tried loading the Ultralight into my departure airport, exiting the flight, then loading the saved NGX flight. I also tried starting FSX from scratch (which shows the Ultralight in the preview screen), then loading the NGX flight directly. When I save a flight through the originator flow, it will load successfully. Anything past that and it seems to be having problems when I try to load it (dead cockpit, and CDU isn't responsive).

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Hi, Long-time flyer of the LDS 767 and have recently gotten into the PMDG 737NGX - love it so far! I do have one annoying issue that I'm trying to resolve though. Any feedback would be much appreciated. Short story: I have been working up one of my favorite short-haul routes and am saving it at various stages of setup in FSX, so I can return to various stages as needed. I am able to re-load a saved flight through the completion of originator flow (with ground power connected, some of the doors opened for service, fuel loaded and payload configured, etc.), and the flight deck looks great - everything is powered up correctly, etc. However, once I enter/activate my route into the FMC and save the flight at that stage, it won't re-load correctly. When I try to load that flight after saving it, FSX never goes through the PMDG initialization phase -- it just comes up cold & dark and completely unresponsive. I tried holding down the MENU key on the CDU and it's completely unresponsive. Everything seems stable, so I'm not sure if I'm not saving the flight correctly (just using the normal FSX save flight function), or if I'm missing something obvious. Quick rundown on my system basics: Intel i7 2.50 GHz (overclock to 3.2 GHz for simulations), 16GB RAM FSX SP2 with PMDG 737NGX-800 Airport Enhancement Services (which works very nicely with the aircraft) Vox ATC (also works nicely with the aircraft) EZDok Camera (terrific tool) Is there anything obvious that I might be missing here?

I've had the same problem with multiple airports. I use the now-retired World of AI, and VoxATC communicates with the AI aircraft, but eventually they would stop and then disappear from the taxiway. Not very realistic. I haven't flown as much lately and need to test this out, but I think version 6.20 was supposed to include a bug fix for this: http://voxatc.com/Home.aspx/News 17 May 2013 Version 6.20 ReleasedVoxATC now supports FSX and Prepar3D. Version 6.20 will work with either simulator. The following issues are also fixed Occasionally not getting landing clearances. Fatal error occurring on landing after an emergency. Problems with making contact while enroute and when arriving during VFR flight. Taxiing aircraft disappearing when approached by the user's aircraft No response from the controller when using VoxATC without a flight plan (local flight) or when flying a helicopter.

Running the indexer was how I solved this problem, because it didn't recognize all variations of the LDS 767 that I use.

I think there are probably a bunch of unnamed bug fixes in this release as well. For example, I pinged support about an approach issue with Delta Airlines callsigns into KATL (won't direct me to the approach controller, arrghh), and he reviewed my log file and said that there was a fix for the issue coming with this release. Yay, can't wait to try it out. This is a really cool product, so I'm happy to see that there's enough customer demand to fuel new releases. Thanks for all of the hard work, VoxATC team (Tegwyn ... and others?)! Dan

I've been using the free World of AI and it's been working fairly well so far with VoxATC. Although I see that the World of AI project is going to be discontinued soon, so if you want to try it out, you'll need to act fast: http://www.world-of-ai.com/index.php So far the only issue I've had is that some of the AI traffic generated by VoxATC is taxing on the grass and stuff at KATL (my home airport); I'm using the ImagineSim KATL 2012 scenery package, so it could be an issue unrelated to VoxATC.

Hi all, Turns out that it was user error. . My flight plan had multiple CADIT waypoints in it, which confused Vox. Once I cleaned up and filed the flight plan again, it worked like a champ. Cool product.

Hi, I've been reading the forum and following all of the instructions to a tee, but I still cannot get VoxATC to give me the correct SID. I'm currently evaluating the product using the demo version to see if I want to take the plunge and purchase it. I'm filing a very commonly flown airline flight plan from Atlanta to Chicago O'Hare (KATL to KORD) as follows: CADIT7 CADIT GLAZR HOPAP VOSTK HEVAN MZZ ROYKO3 (Bold/underline markings are the SID and STAR, respectively) To get VoxATC to work correctly, I've made sure that CADIT is a waypoint on the flight plan, which is the last waypoint on the CADIT7 SID; that way, I should get the appropriate CADIT7 SID when the runway is assigned. However, despite all attempts, all Vox wants to assign me is the ATL6.09R departure, which is Atlanta's vectored departure procedure for the runway that it's assigning me. Ugh. Vox has been assigning me to runway 09R every time so far, so I tried building a flight plan that included every waypoint on the CADIT7.09R SID (KATL->PICKT->RONII->BEDRK->RBEKA->CADIT). Not very realistic, but I thought I'd try it just to see -- but even with every SID waypoint included in the plan, it's still clearing me for the ATL6.09R vectored departure rather than the CADIT7.09R SID. I've tried creating the flight w/ the plan, saving the flight, stopping it, reloading the flight, checking the kneeboard navlog to make sure the plan is correct, etc. -- nothing seems to work. Would someone mind looking at this straightforward flight plan for me and provide some guidance please? I must be missing something obvious. The other issue I'm having is that I'm reading back the clearance exactly as stated in the Vox window (and I've done extensive speech training with it using multiple flight plans), but I'm not getting the "readback correct" statement ... it just pauses and asks me to repeat the departure procedure + runway portion of the clearance, which I do - then it just pauses. I then say "Delta one zero eight five, say again?" and it repeats the entire clearance again ... and it's just that vicious cycle over and over again - it won't give me "readback correct" and direct me to the ground controller as expected. Double ugh. I'm still running the demo version to decide whether to buy ... so far, I'm not feeling too good about it, but perhaps it's user error. Other things I've done: Completed the Runway Number Update Run the VoxATC indexer (I have not tried to customize the plan using the SID & STAR setup -- my understanding is that I shouldn't have to do that with one of the SID waypoints included in the plan) Some extra details about my setup: Intel i7 4-core 8-thread overclocked at 3.2 GHz, 16GB RAM Windows 7 64-bit FSX w/ SP1 & 2 Level-D 767-300ER (I love this aircraft) with latest Navigraph navdata (VoxATC pointed to the correct folder as well) Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 (headset is working quite well with Windows speech recognition) Flight plans produced using FSBuild 2.4.0.18 against the latest Navigraph navdata ImagineSim KATL scenery 2012 -- fantastic representation of the Atlanta airport; all runways, etc. are fully up to date - the Runway Number Update didn't need to make any changes to KATL If I can get VoxATC to work through this particular flight reliably (one of my favorites), then I will probably make the purchase. Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!