Frost15

Here's the situation... 1. I get in a plane. 2. I log onto VATSIM. 3. I contact the controller with whatever. 4. Uhhh... could you repeat please? As visible on step four, I can't understand the controller. Not in the sense that I don't know ATC protocol, It's that the audio quality is often times so poor that I get discouraged, knowing I'll have problems and just log off. I use vPilot and FSX-SE, and so far I can't find any helpful audio settings. This is truly the only factor keeping me from flying more VATSIM, as I simply can't function in the server when I have to ask to repeat so many times, and it really gets embarrassing for me, and I'm sure it's annoying to the controller. Is there any sort of specific way you guys pick apart poor audio broadcasts? Is there a special audio setting you utilize for the best performance? Basically, how do you tackle poor audio from your controller?