I've been having a blast!...

[petermcleland]

Simon...Excellent, thanks very much for that...I'll do it now :flying:

[petermcleland]

Thanks Simon...Yes that worked a treat

BTW I've just bodged up some sound files for my AI version of Echo and also for the F-16s...They include a fix to stop them using reverse thrust (which they don't have) on landing. They seem to work very nicely :flying:

[petermcleland]

John,

On the numbers thing, it seems that this only affects the manufacturer's name and not the name of the aircraft...This is actually more accurate and I'm considering the possibility of encouraging it to do more of this.

In my time on the Tridents for example, ATC never ever referred to me as a "Hawker Siddeley Trident"...They always called my aircraft a "Trident".

Watching and listening at Kai Tak, I notice that with so many Boeings in my fleets, they have run out of upper/lower case permutations and gone to the numbers so a lot of Boeings are simply referred to by their type...Which is how it would be in real life. I also notice that they have realistic variations like the B777 I have heard called a "Bee Seven Seven Seven" and sometimes a "Triple Seven".

As there are not so many Airbusses they seem to have managed without the numbers and they seem to say things like "Airbus Ay Three Twenny" etc. Anyway, it seems to me that the overall result is the introduction of many varied ways of referring to aircraft and I'm quite pleased with how it all sounds...EXCEPT I must confess that I'm not really keen on the "Hawker Siddeley" mouthful and I'm considering deleting that "Hawker_Siddeley" with the underscore that I made in EditVoicepack. Now that you have got them saying "Trident" again, deleting that mod should result in them dropping the "Hawker Siddeley" and just saying "Trident" :flying:

[johnhinson]

Thanks Peter - yes their help file said this was a more realistic way to do it, which with your comments is obviously true. I have no experience of real ATC myself, but have got very used to Microsoft's as it is and was a bit taken aback when it forced changes without asking. Maybe I should force myself to get used to it being like that.

I love this piece of kit but I still do not forgive it for the settings it forces on you. I recently noticed it stops you choosing your display settings in TrafficLook - it proudly tells you in a window that it will only make the change once - once, that is, until it finds you have changed things back. :o) Then it does it again.

Heigh ho.

John

[petermcleland]

Yes...It did that with the TCAS range and then changed it back...But it means that it will only change it once when FSHotFSX is started...So I discovered that if I set "No" to it autoloading when FS9 is started that I could leave FSHotFSX running all day and go in and out of FS9 without it changing things back...Then it was kindly pointed out to me that I could set a default value in the .ini file and then it would leave it alone (see one of my previous posts in this thread about TCAS Range). Maybe that value that you want to retain could be set in stone there

[Garry Russell]

Listening to ATC they always seemed to use just the name of the aircraft like Herald, Viscount but with Airbus being a Airbus A.320 for example they called it an Aye three twenty but in the case of Boeing where it is a Boeing 727 rather than a Boeing B.727 then ATC called is a Boeing seven two seven

In the case of the 748 where is is known as a Hawker Siddeley HS.748 (In the same style as an Airbus type) ATC always called them as Ache Ess Seven four eight.

So much as you see them written only using the last part unless it is just a number then using the whole name.


HP Herald
Vickers Viscount
Airbus A.320
Boeing 727
Hawker Siddeley HS.748

Garry