I agree with you totally. My sentiment was that there have also been many accidents
caused by ATC talking in a foreign language (English) to another pilot who also
doesn't speak English as a first language. The possible problems which can be
introduced by a conversation in effect being
Matthew Law wrote:
I agree with you totally. My sentiment was that there have also been many
accidents caused by ATC talking in a foreign language (English) to another
pilot who also doesn't speak English as a first language.
That can often be a problem between a controller and pilot who *do*
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Law wrote:
I agree with you totally. My sentiment was that there have also been many
accidents caused by ATC talking in a foreign language (English) to another
pilot who also doesn't speak English as a first language.
That can often be
Martin Spott wrote:
Do you have to pass an exam on the north American continent for
operating the radio ? In Germay we have to own the Restricted Flight
Radiotelephone Operator's Certificate (this is _not_ my translation,
it's printed on the certificate itself :-) _before_ you are allowed
to
Ivo wrote:
On Monday 29 December 2003 00:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One question, do we allready have an ATC text file with all the necessary
ATC talk sentences and airport names so that someone who can speak
english quite well can record them to *.wav files?
Or we
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 17:50, Matevz Jekovec wrote:
Heh, besides, you'll
have English with Slovenian accent when entering Slovenian airspace, is
that cool or what! :).
- Matevz
Yes, that sounds great. :)
Best Regards,
Oliver C.
___
On 03:15 Mon 29 Dec , Ivo wrote:
Or we could have multiple people around the world recording the sentences,
so we'll hear the right accent when approaching for example New Delhi or
Mexico City or Frankfurt. Maybe even bilingual, though I don't know if they
use their native language (for
Matthew Law wrote:
According to the ICAO, all ATC comms should be in English. Quite rightly however,
most controllers use their native tongue unless talking to international
flights.
Actually, I think that's a serious problem. One of the benefits of using a
common ATC frequency (instead of
Ivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or we could have multiple people around the world recording the sentences,
so we'll hear the right accent when approaching for example New Delhi or
Mexico City or Frankfurt.
I think that I won't approach Frankfurt within the next years but
theoretically it
Matthew Law writes:
On 03:15 Mon 29 Dec , Ivo wrote:
Or we could have multiple people around the world recording the sentences,
so we'll hear the right accent when approaching for example New Delhi or
Mexico City or Frankfurt. Maybe even bilingual, though I don't know if they
use
On 12/29/03 at 2:34 PM Martin Spott wrote:
Ivo wrote:
Or we could have multiple people around the world recording the
sentences,
so we'll hear the right accent when approaching for example New Delhi or
Mexico City or Frankfurt.
I think that I won't approach Frankfurt within the next years
On Monday, 29 December 2003 18:35, David Luff wrote:
Ugh, what's the copyright situation as regards using recordings from the
airwaves?
I wouldn't even bother wasting my time trying to use real recordings.
- You need controlled recordings - voices that deliberately have very little
On Monday, 29 December 2003 19:51, David Luff wrote:
As for recording the stuff, currently we're limited to 8bit, 8KHz, mono, at
which setting the voice is noticably deteriorated in quality. I believe
that Bernie is working on improved sound support, so it might be worth
mastering and editing
Paul Surgeon wrote:
Why are we using wave files in the first place?
Yes I know that they don't require decompression which saves CPU
cycles but Ogg Vorbis compression is excellent and it's GPL.
No reason. Someone needs to do the work to integrate plib (which
provides our sound loader) with
Andy Ross writes:
An even better addition would be libjpeg integration for texture
files.
I doubt if that will ever happen
http://sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/jpegs_are_evil_too.html
But I agree we shoul dbe using texture compression
Best would be a OpenGL supported format like S3TC but older
On Monday, 29 December 2003 20:59, Norman Vine wrote:
But just switching to PNG would make a substantial reduction in
the package size and would not add much to the load time
The PNG compression is not as good (size wise) as jpg but it's lossless which
is great were we need to retain original
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:48:10 +0200,
Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Monday, 29 December 2003 18:35, David Luff wrote:
Ugh, what's the copyright situation as regards using recordings from
the airwaves?
..wherever banned, that's moot. ;-)
I wouldn't
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:28:22 +0200,
Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Monday, 29 December 2003 20:59, Norman Vine wrote:
But just switching to PNG would make a substantial reduction in
the package size and would not add much to the load time
The PNG
On Monday 29 December 2003 00:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One question, do we allready have an ATC text file with all the necessary
ATC talk sentences and airport names so that someone who can speak
english quite well can record them to *.wav files?
Or we could have multiple people around
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