On Mar 6, 5:24*pm, Mike Ash wrote:
In article ,

*Mxsmanic wrote:
Clark writes:

There are never any problems with radios and audio systems, everything is
always crystal clear and all requests and instructions are perfectly
understood. Riiiight! Okey dokey. Have fun in your dream world.

Real-world ratios are clearer than simulated radios, most of the time.

Really? Why would simulated radios use such terrible technology?

I've never used VATSIM or anything of the sort, but I've used many VoIP
technologies such as Skype, TeamSpeak, and others. They *all* have much
better quality that any aircraft radio I've used. Simply understanding
what the other guy said more than 50% of the time takes some practice
and attention with a typical aircraft radio, at least in my experience.

Why do VATSIM and the other ATC simulators use such bad technology? Are
they trying to simulate the poor quality of aircraft radios and
overshooting?

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Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

It would be amusing to have MX copy a real clearance, wouldn't it?
Maybe not from JFK but a smaller airport. Want to bet there would be
several "say again's", followed by the delivery guy saying something
like "read my lips".

Of course in rebuttal MX would say something either about the quality
of the radio, or of the guy giving the clearance. FWIW, I do wonder if
bad audio quality is required in aviation radios?