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MSFS20 Problem with some frequencies when I change them (ATIS ...)

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Hi all

I modeled an airport. But I've a problem with the frequencies :
- The ATIS doesn't work, even I set it manualy on the radio
- The ground frequency appears in duplicate, 2 times

when i created the airport, I set tyhe properties on "delete all frequency" and I manually added the good frequencies in the airport XML

Here some screens :

1- My xml


2- The frequencies in the airport selection


3- The ingame ATC menu


Can some help me to solve this ?

Thank you guys :)
Luc
 
If I remember rightly the ATIS name has to be an ICAO.

I don't know why you have two ground frequencies.
 
lumat said:
1- My xml
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The name has to match an ATCCOM.AGENT_NAME listed in the localization packs (Official/OneStore/fs-base/*.locpak).

In the locpak I found those entries for you (text: what's displayed in the ATC window, tts: vocal text-to-speech, i.e. "what you hear"):
Code: 
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_NAME AVIGNON.0.text": "Avignon",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_NAME AVIGNON.0.tts": "Avignon",
(then, farther in the file:)
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_NAME ORANGE.0.text": "Orange",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_NAME ORANGE.0.tts": "Orange",
(then, farther on:)
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_NAME PROVENCE.0.text": "Provence",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_NAME PROVENCE.0.tts": "Provence",

So re-write your com names accordingly, just stating "AVIGNON", "ORANGE" or "PROVENCE" instead of "AVIGNON ATIS/SOL/TOUR", "ORANGE APPROCHE" & "PROVENCE APPROCHE". The type element will tell the sim to add "APPROACH", "GROUND", etc to the callsign, according this these entries in the locpak (here the french one):
Code: 
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_APPROACH.0.text": "Approche",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_APPROACH.0.tts": "Approach",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_CENTER.0.text": "Centre",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_CENTER.0.tts": "Center",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_CLEARANCE.0.text": "Autorisation accordée",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_CLEARANCE.0.tts": "Clearance Delivery",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_CTAF.0.text": "Trafic",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_CTAF.0.tts": "Traffic",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_DEPARTURE.0.text": "Départ",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_DEPARTURE.0.tts": "Departure",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_FSS.0.text": "Radio",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_FSS.0.tts": "Radio",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_GROUND.0.text": "Sol",
      "ATCCOM.AGENT_GROUND.0.tts": "Ground",

You may edit those AGENTs in you locpak, as replacing "ATCCOM.AGENT_GROUND.0.tts": "Ground" by "ATCCOM.AGENT_GROUND.0.tts": "Sol" to hear it in french, but be warned:
- you may edit stock files at your own risk (they will be overwrited at each MSFS update anyway)
- such changes to ATCCOM.AGENTs will be applied globally, not only at your local airport.
 
lumat said:
Hi all

I modeled an airport. But I've a problem with the frequencies :
- The ATIS doesn't work, even I set it manualy on the radio
- The ground frequency appears in duplicate, 2 times
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Sorry I misread your questions.
For duplicate ground freq, I'm having the same at airports that don't have a dedicated clearance freq. I think it's an MSFS bug, displaying once the ground freq for normal usage and once more in place of clearance freq.
Don't know about the ATIS.
 
Thank you, Superspud and Mottoth for your answers and the informations.

With the default airport there is no problem with ATIS. I hope somebody know the problem :)
 
Hello.
I come back with this problem, not solved for now.
Nobody know why the ATIS doesn't work when we modify the com frequencies of an airport ?
Thank for your help :)
 
Hi Luc,
Sorry that I do not have a solution, but I can confirm this behaviour. Even using the atccom agent name did not solve this issue. For now as a workaround I did not exclude the default frequencies in my airport. This works as the frequencies match the AIRAC. Maybe this is an option for you.

Regards
Jörg
 
The ATIS name has to match the ICAO Code of your airport - at least this works for me. So only the 4 letters as the name.
 
Thanks. But

Try with ICAO Code:
<Com frequency="123.78" type="ATIS" name="LSZR"/> or
<Com frequency="123.780" type="ATIS" name="LSZR"/> or
<Com frequency="123.7800" type="ATIS" name="LSZR"/> or

Try with ATC Agent definitions:
<Com frequency="123.780" type="ATIS" name="ST GALLEN"/>
<Com frequency="123.780" type="ATIS" name="ST GALLEN ATIS"/>

all did not work.

Always showing up in the starting screen but not working in the sim.
Message in the ATC window "COM1 INot in use 123.780

No further idea what could be the syntax here. ASOBO could provide an entry window for the airport frequencies to be replaced. Would make the life much easier for developers.
 
Just one thing I experienced: I also saw the frequencies not working at my airport and gave up. Then I just "used" my airport with those frequencies so I just flew around a little bit - And suddenly the frequencies started working. They did not work as long as I never started a "flight". So I jsut always spawned at the parking position / runway and it did not work. But as soon I was in the air, it worked.
Just an idea..
 
Karlo, you're right.
For the ATIS, we must use the ICAO code, not the name of the airport.
For the others frequencies, the name work very well.
It's a little particularity that we had to find :)
 
I'm having the same problem with non-towered airport KPSF. Frequencies do not show in the Free Flight flight planning screen nor in the ATC window once in the flight:

<Com frequency="128.600000" type="CLEARANCE" name="Albany"/>
<Com frequency="135.375000" type="ASOS" name="KPSF"/>
<Com frequency="122.700000" type="CTAF" name="Pittsfield"/>
<Com frequency="132.824999" type="APPROACH" name="Albany"/>
<Com frequency="132.824999" type="DEPARTURE" name="Albany"/>
<Com frequency="122.700000" type="UNICOM" name="Pittsfield"/>
<Com frequency="122.300000" type="FSS" name="Burlington"/>
<DeleteAirport deleteAllApproaches="FALSE" deleteAllApronLights="FALSE" deleteAllAprons="FALSE" deleteAllFrequencies="TRUE" deleteAllHelipads="FALSE" deleteAllRunways="TRUE" deleteAllStarts="TRUE" deleteAllTaxiways="TRUE" deleteAllVectorPlacement="FALSE" deleteAllBoundaryFences="FALSE" deleteAllJetways="FALSE" deleteAllControlTowers="FALSE" deleteAllDepartures="FALSE" deleteAllArrivals="FALSE" deleteAllPaintedElements="TRUE" deleteAllLightSupports="FALSE" deleteAllTaxiwaySigns="TRUE" deleteAllILSs="FALSE" deleteAllTerminalWaypoints="FALSE" deleteAllTerminalNDBs="FALSE"/>

Any solution?
 
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