--- Martin Spott <t> wrote:
> Christian Mayer wrote:
> > Martin Spott schrieb:
>
> >> Could you probably back this with an explanation ? Voice-based ATC is
> >> done all over the world, why should'nt FlightGear do this as well ?
> >
> > I understand the point that a real voice service does only make sense
> > when there is an ATC service (at least for the big airports and
> > instrument flying) that can handle it.
> [...]
> > Text messages have the big problem that when you are already missing a
> > few hands during landing you would need an additional hand that
> selects
> > the correct text. A voice message would be parallel...
>
> I'd like to underline these two points:
> 1.) There won't be any volunteer who is serious about doing ATC
> service as long as FlightGear does not have _appropriate_
> capabilities. Appropriate capabilities in my eyes includes
> something that resembles the functions of a radar screen plus ...
> 2.) a medium that allows ATC to communicate with the pilots in a way
> that really allows for doing ATC. Typing text messages definitely
> does not fall in this category because ATC as well as the pilots
> need their hands for other tasks. I don't know a single serious
> pilot who is capable of flying an approach with just one hand (you
> need one for the controls and the other for throttle/flaps/whatever
> - not to speak of the necessary skills to type only with the
> fingers on the other hand.
I feel slightly wary of voice-based comms within FG itself, if only
because it is unlikely to be able to integrate within the current ATC/AI
code. Having human ATC is great, but a fallback AI version would allow a
small number of human ATC controllers to be part of a complete ATC
environment.
I think there is probably more mileage in the menu-style system that is
currently used for our ATC. If we could access the ATC menu options using
the keyboard (numbers 1 - 9 on the top of the keyboard?) it wouldn't take
too much effort on approach, and adding a free-form text box would be
fairly
Of course, just because you are using a text-based ATC system for the
basic interaction, doesn't mean you can't use voice-comms on top of that
to add realism.
Regards,
-Stuart
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