Re: [Flightgear-devel] That blaring voice...

[Daniel O. <dan...@ar...>]

The real ATIS voice of most airports is as bad as the one from 
FlightGear, so this is a pretty good match.


On 30.09.24 00:28, Josh Davidson wrote:
> 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:
>
>  *
>     Disabling this blaring voice on startup - there's already the
>     message, who needs it?
>  *
>     Keeping the second comm radio muted by default (then auto-tuning
>     the freq is ok and can be useful).
>      o
>         There is no sense in having an ATIS tuned radio blaring.
>
>
> Hope to hear your thoughts,
>
> Bests,
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> --
> Josh Davidson
>
>
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