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Hi, I've recently begun to use Pro ATC X together with Aerosoft's Airbus 32x latest edition and there's one issue which seems to be peculiar in conjunction with the bus (apparently not with other aircraft). Obviously, when flying with any kind of ATC addon, I'm expected to meet a WP or be reasonable close to it (whatever the threshold calculation for the actual distance is in Pro ATC). Now the problem is that the bus AP sometimes calculates an "inside turn" (not sure if this is the right term), i.e. it begins the turn into the new heading at some point before the actual WP, sometimes it calculates a loop which puts the WP directly onto the flight path. Pro ATC seems to have problems with either approaches, i.e. in the first case, I've had situations where it wouldn't activate the next WP because the previous was never met, in the second case it tries to vector me towards the WP when the "outbound loop" starts. Now this might be a Pro ATC issue, but I vaguely remember from a long time ago when flying with RadarContact (and a different bus < FS2004) that there was something like being able to influence this behavior somewhere, either in the ATC/RC settings or in the AP configuration? I wonder if anyone who's also flying the bus with Pro ATC can shed some insight here... Already posted on the respective support forums but it seems this is an "interface" problem between 2 add-ons and neither feels "responsible". Thanks, Armin

During my first flights with FS2Crew (and Pro ATC X and an AXE) I often had quite an audio mishmash, ATC background chatter (or ATC messages for me), FO talking, cabin crew talking, AES and the occasional announcements from the bus's voices. All of this occasionally resulting in barely understandable messages. Now I understand that this might be mainly caused by my inability to properly synchronize the different flows and procedures, but I wonder what the best practice here is. One of the limitations could be that I can divert FS2Crew to a headset, but everything else is going on speaker, in particular Pro ATC, which I think cannot be diverted separately). Any suggestions? Thanks, Armin

Yes, I saw that, and I also think I saw somewhere something where this was synchronized with the captain flow? Anyway, I think during the 3rd flight with FS2Crew it sort of made click in my mind so I'm fine now. The only things that's bothering me know is the partial overlap of too many voices (ATC, FO, cabin crew at times). But that's something for a separate topic.

Yep, I got that now... What I'm still unsure about (and which is very hard if not impossible to pick out of videos) is what the FO actually does or doesn't do. I've had a bunch of ooops situations during last night's flight when I thought the FO would set something but actually didn't. (no, I don't have the entire procedure steps in my mind just yet ;-). Also, sometimes it wasn't clear whether a 2ndary button or a primary button action would come first. A more detailed walk-through in the manual part you referenced wouldn't hurt here... At any rate, eventually, I'll surely pick it up. All we were trying to say here is that the current manual (I wouldn't quite call it a tutorial) has some room for improvement which would eliminate some of the apparent frustration of new users in early days.

Also purchased it today (and missed the 25% discount listed in the forum, first bummer :huh:) and so far I'm also kind of mystified how the button version is actually intended to work. For starters, the only PDF it has installed in my case is FS2Crew Airbus X Button Control Manual.pdf, it says: A FULL PDF TUTORIAL AND MANUAL IS AVAILABLE IN THIS FOLDER: Microsoft Flight Simulator X\FS2Crew2010\Versions\AerosoftAirbusX\Docs Is it referring to itself or some other document (which I can't find)? In particular what I haven't figured out yet is the "control interface" of the app, i.e. I think the manual says here's the primary button, here's the 2ndary button but I'm still wondering as to when I'm supposed to use the main and when the 2ndary - in conjunction with the colors and left right display. I'm sure I'll figure that out eventually, but to me, the above mentioned manual really reads more like a reference manual and less like a tutorial. The supposedly tutorial-like part "the Airbus Captain's Flow document" for instance doesn't say anything about who does what and how it's actually done... Again, a bit of guessing (or maybe a lot of back and forth in the document) seems to be required. Just my 2 cents... and yes, I know, writing these kind of manuals is difficult for anyone who's already familiar with a piece of software... been there, done that ;-)

Awesome, that was the reason :Applause: Thanks a lot!

Ok, tried it but I think there's something else going on, with the following settings I still get those "sound drops": I have 2 add-ons active, Pro ATC X and Aerosoft's Airbus X 320, didn't see anything there which would explain this. The effect is basically a tune down of the entire volume to ~ 5% (barely audible), then after a while it goes back to normal.

Thanks for the hint, I somehow missed that. Will check this during the next flight.

Hi, when flying around busy airports, the ambient sound (environment, engines) frequently drops to almost 0. My guess is that this is related to FSX's default ATC doing its thing in the background, at least it sort of correlates with what I see in the default ATC window. Based on what I found in forums so far, I turned the voice volume down to off and 0 (no need for it anyway, since I use Pro ATC X), but that doesn't seem to be enough. Is there anything else I can do to avoid these "silent periods"? Thanks, Armin