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During Long Flights I am often cruising along at 8x simulation Rate. When ATC (Air Traffic Control) talk to me it is at high Speed, probably 8x not giving you time to respond, the gap is not even long enough to hit the reply key. The voice is Clear and easy to understand it is just so quick you cannot respond soon enough and it sometimes gets to the stage they cancel the flight plan. Is there a way of slowing down the ATC conversation without slowing down the actual flight speed?
Allen

This is curious! When I set the simulation speed to something more than 1x, the ATC voices don't change neither in pitch nor in speed.

I have noticed that  atc will cut short some of the instructions as you jump from 2x to 4x but atc does not talk any faster and as far as I know there is no way to alter that so if you speed up the sim to 4x or 8x then atc instructions will jump accordingly.

The only thing i've noticed, which would be expected anyway, is that you have to really be 'on the ball' and respond immediately or they keep sending "please respond", "did you recieve my last transmision?", etc. This is why i'll not re-tune to the next freq' so I can get some sleep on long flights!

When you hear your call,  hit your response key (before the transmission ends). If you wait 'till the end of message, other atc voice traffic may ensue and you cannot interrupt it.

If you need to review the atc directions, it's available on the kneeboard.

Dave

May i suggest setting your EVP3.1 voices to "Accelerated". I do.

wji, I appreciate the suggestion but i have never used this program before. I wouldn't know where to start.
Allen

FS_pilot
It is a simple program that is real easy to install just down load and follw the instructions and look for the tab to click accelerated voices. I have the same program.
If you have problems try sending me a private message I will be more than glad to help out.
This program is really the best way to get atc to call the propper call sign and I think you will like some of the more personal messages it uses like good bye and thanks alot and others.

Ever notice how ATC always starts calling you the second you rev up the sim speed? And it's always just another handoff... grrr...

I tried running them as accelerated wji but that only made them even more difficult to understand. They don't talk that fast at 8x however at 8x they are so quick with no gap in between you don't get a chance to responde before they are repeating the instructions again.

That is the way it works. The easiest way to avoid all of the hand-off's is when atc tells you to change to a different frequency DON'T then crank up the speed atc will not call you again. Then when you are starting to get close slow down the speed change to the frequency atc last gave you then be prepared to change frequencies alot untill you catch up to where you are currently at. Then just continue on as normal.

Where is the Realism in that. It is part of the flight to have air traffic control. you wouldn't get away with it in real life so why should you in a simulation, That is part of the fun