[Flightgear-devel] That blaring voice...

[Josh D. <jos...@ou...>]

Hi,
I really need to ask about this, because I DON'T understand.

When starting FG for the first time, users are presented with this quite harsh voice "Welc-hum ab-hard, need h-elp, use h-elp tutor-heals"

It's quite jarring.

And then, the ATIS starts blaring in this same harsh voice...

Can someone help me understand this decision? I find it to be quite a turn off, and I imagine a new user would be frantically clicking around trying to figure out how to make the blare stop.

Because, in the real plane, we do not just leave ATIS blaring. It's distracting. That radio with ATIS tuned is either muted or tuned elsewhere until we need ATIS, then we tune, get ATIS, and untune.

I would propose that we maybe address this for 2024.1:

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Disabling this blaring voice on startup - there's already the message, who needs it?
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Keeping the second comm radio muted by default (then auto-tuning the freq is ok and can be useful).
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There is no sense in having an ATIS tuned radio blaring.

Hope to hear your thoughts,

Bests,


Kind Regards,

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Josh Davidson