Hi Devon,
I checked out your link, and most of it seems even more confused than the guy's strange approach to changing headings. As for voice recognition generated co-pilot responses and whatnot, that really should be a separate animal, crawl before walk before run before fly.
Basic controls and then communications once there is something to communicate with.
Correct me if I am wrong, but there is no ATC in Fly2 yet is there? Why these people are recording long lists of hypothetical responses to an ATC format that hasn't been revealed yet makes no sense, just as the vast majority of the responses and contact phrases I saw listed were not remotely similar to what actual tower/ground/ATC communications would look like, a point that some of the participants have been repeating.
I get it that these folks are playing around with seeing how to make things work, but it seems that as far as communication goes, their carts are out in front of their horses. They need to learn about real world aviation communications, and wait till the ATC is released to worry about what to say to them, because it is the Fly2 ATC which will dictate the phraseology, and if it is like every other flight simulator, they will format it based on actual aviation communications.
So sure, they might be able to record their own voice responses using those phrases (once they are known) to replace whatever their default response within the ATC would have been, but that would entail recording every possible airport and control area designation, which will certainly preface any initial contact i.e.,
Fullerton ground, Cherokee 23456 ready at General aviation with information echo for taxi to the active.
John Wayne Tower, Cessna 34567 5 miles east inbound for landing with information alpha.
SoCal Approach, Bonanza 45678 with you at 5000 feet.
With GC2 in FSX ATC, I only had to say the number of my selected response to initiate my comment within the ATC, and the listed responses were not the same as the comments they would initiate. For example, the above call to John Wayne tower would have been the result of selecting "
Contact John Wayne Tower For Landing" by simply speaking the number
1 from a list of local airports.
I get the feeling the guy in the video would want to select the number
1 by speaking "
Contact John Wayne Tower For Landing", and then have his imaginary co-pilot give the tower a call....
I can't see how Fly2 would go out of their way to deviate too far from the FSX ATC model other than to add to its capabilities with more selections to choose from, but no one will know till they know.
In the mean time while they are all waiting to see what the ATC looks like, websites like
liveatc.net are an open book to aviation communications and any listener will notice that
everyone is saying pretty much the same things at
every airport coming, going, and on the ground. There are also many videos at YouTube with cockpit chatter between pilot and co-pilot to model routine altitude and heading phrases on.
As a final thought, if you really want immersion, figure out how to play liveatc.net recordings (they have archives of downloadable 30 minute recordings from many airports) in the background while you are flying, I do it in FSX with a CDplayer addon that mixes with the FSX audio and plays mp3's.
OK, I said my peace...enjoy your new toys!
Cheers
Gary