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Attention all DC-3 fans !

Keep watchin' and waitin'

Just when you think you got it knocked you get a glitch. (See my KNGZ Alameda thread above) I am very anxiously awaiting this for my Manfred DC3 that I flew in Burma and also on D-Day with the 91st BG last year. This was before i qualified in the DC3 over at DC3 Airways. Being a 737 sim pilot it was my first time flying like the "good ol' days" and I burned up an engine not opening cowl flaps when I was climbing LOL (The guys were hollering at me that it was smoking) and I'm saying what cowl flaps looking for a switch. Too late before I found it. Fortunately I was over the field and returned on the ground with a smoking right engine out of the flight. I watch that now on any prop job I am flying now. keep up keepin up with the panel. It is amazing!
 
Javis said:
Will the first person that is *willing and able* to record all regular F/O communication with his own voice stand up please ?....
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Put me in coach. I've been a pilot for over 50 years and cultivated a gravelly airline pilot voice so as to assure controllers I had a vague idea what I was doing. I'd be happy to do the recordings. Send me a script and tell me what file type and quality you want and I'll do it over the weekend.

Break, break.

For those of you who are lusting over the forthcoming Gooney Bird but haven't read Ernie Gann's classic Fate Is The Hunter, I highly recommend it. No, I insist you read it if you want to really enjoy flying the aircraft. You can find used copies for about five bucks including shipping.

Just to give you a nibble, when tragedy occurs and the cause is unexplained, Gann writes, it's because, "...unknown gremlins unzipped their pants and urinated on the pillar of science."

It’s the kind of book you can savor, roll around on your mental tongue. There are phrases and lines in it that are delicious, and at the same time he cooks up a much larger sumptuous spread that will nevertheless leave you hungry for more.

Autobiographical, the book begins with an account of a near mid-air, a case in point. You know it didn’t happen because he’s writing about it, but nevertheless he builds gripping tension to a climax and then has a smoke afterwards. Literally.
 
tailspin45 said:
Put me in coach. I've been a pilot for over 50 years and cultivated a gravelly airline pilot voice so as to assure controllers I had a vague idea what I was doing. I'd be happy to do the recordings. Send me a script and tell me what file type and quality you want and I'll do it over the weekend.


Break, break.
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Read you loud and clear,sir. :encouragement:

Please check your PM's.

Cheers,
Jan
 
ap0r said:
If you provide a script I can record spanish voice.
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Muchas gracias, ap0r !

Much work to do with just the english/american F/O and we don't want to hold up the release any longer so can we take a raincheck on that ?

Thanks much for your offer ! :encouragement:

Cheers,
Jan
 
Javis said:
The seat is already taken, Bjoern, but thanks for the application !
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Aww. Was actually slightly looking forward to this.


Get the english language FO up and running, provide a list of the sound files and phrases and ship 'em with the release documentation and see how many people provide and produce regionalized soundsets.
 
Bjoern said:
Aww. Was actually slightly looking forward to this.


Get the english language FO up and running, provide a list of the sound files and phrases and ship 'em with the release documentation and see how many people provide and produce regionalized soundsets.
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I think that the list of the phrases is a good idea for the foreign market like FDC did with their earlier releases in case you wanted to record your own CO or FO or Flight Attendant wav files. Audacity is free and works very well. You don't have to have an expensive monthly Adobe program to do recording just for flightsim.
 
Audacity

Bjoern said:
Audacity can do text to speech?

That would solve a bit of a problem since I need to redo the crew voices for an aircraft and don't want to use my voice.
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Audacity is an audio recording program not a text to speech program. Those are expensive to get one that sounds like an actual person and each voice is licensed for a fee from $40-$75 USD for a good voice. You can listen to the voices for free with a test script for different ones. I investigated these when I was flying for sim commercial airlines in B737s and using FDSFX panel with recorded cabin announcements. Marcus Thompson used actual flight attendants to do these as I did for Alaska Virtual Airlines for my personal use. A friend's sister was an actual flight attendant for ATA and scripts were from the ATA Flight Attendant manual. Even if you were to get a text to speech program and licensed voices you still have to write all the scripts and I don't know how you would activate them.

To do First Officer/Copilot/PNF you have to either record them in your voice or have someone read scripts for you and have a program that will do them correctly. My best suggestion is to purchase Multicrew Experience. You have to use their voices but you CAN write the scripts. I did this for my C1A Trader using the checklists from the Natops Manual which I purchased recently. The DC3 has manuals on the internet for free downloads. You just have to use a text editor to write the MCE scripts in the proper format. I just took a look at the checklists that come with the program and they have a DC-2 and a DC-9 but with all of the default aircraft shown I don't know why DC-3 is not there. FDC by Aerosoft can also do custom checklists albeit with their voices unless you want to record 200-300 wav files your self from the script they provide. If you want anything worthwhile it takes some work to do. Sorry if this isn't the solution you were hoping for from Audacity.
 
tgycgijoes said:
To do First Officer/Copilot/PNF you have to either record them in your voice or have someone read scripts for you and have a program that will do them correctly.
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Shooting for a vintage ICS sound, Audacity does a reasonable job, I think. We'll see.

Meanwhile, work is progressing
 

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