foxmike80

This is really great news. Does that mean the 4 seconds limit is gone?

While testing joystick settings today I discovered that FS2Crew detects joystick pressed and joystick button released as separate commands - at least the windows that pop up say so. If you used the joystick button pressed event as the trigger to mute the mic and the joystick button released as the unmute event, this should do the trick, because then there is no 4 second limit. I tried to hold the button pressed for more than 10 seconds and the "joystick button released" window only appeared after I had released the button.

Thanks a lot for looking into this. This is really appreciated. You might be right that they are not using Simconnect. Can you detect Joystick presses in any other way or can you detect when a button is released? If so, you could assign button press as mute and button release as unmute.

Thanks for your answer. The support here is just great! I am trying to hold the button down like I would for VATSIM. My idea is to push the button, this should mute FS2Crew and initiate the transmission on VATSIM. Once I release the PTT, the transmission should end and FS2Crew start to listen again. So FS2Crew should basically ignore anything I say while I push the button. Might be I'm understanding something about the timer wrong, but doesn't VATSIM's client do excatly that? Recognize the PTT push - transmit until it is released no matter how long the transmission. Again, thanks for your great support.

I just came around testing this feature and I must say that this is what I was hoping for. Thank you or looking into this. However, the push-to-mute (soft mute) only works for a few seconds after the button was pressed. Could that be changed to mute for the whole time while the button is pressed? Or, alternatively, button press mutes and button release unmutes? I try to use the same button for muting FS2Crew and transmitting on VATSIM. In its current state, I fear switching on and off systems when reading back an instruction to a VATSIM controller that might me longer than a couple of seconds.

I know this issue has been touched in other threads, but I consider it important enough for a thread of its own. I would really love to use open mic mode with a push-to-mute button; one I could also assign for VATSIM's push-to-talk button. That way, I would mute FS2CREW while talking to ATC and FS2CREW would listen to me when not talking to ATC. It would be like switching from intercom to transmit in a real plane and it would be so much more intuitive and realistic than having two separate PTT-buttons for ATC and CREW. Might be, I'm abit simple minded here, but that just confuses me. I really hope this option will make it into 1.1. Thanks in advance and again for an otherwise great product.

I understand. In my case I am alone in a room and can control ambient sound. So it would be nice the to have the option. I'm in the middle of my first "real" flight after testing a lot yesterday and I must say I am impressed. How much this adds to immersion - thanks a lot for that great addon.

And I also and totally agree to this suggestion. A mute key is much more convenient when using it on VATSIM. Just talk to your FO like you would in real life and press the button when you talk to ATC - we could then also assign the same button as PTT for VATSIM and mute for FS2Crew. So when you talk to ATC FS2Crew is automatically muted.