Simviation Forum - Annoying Nav/ADF morse noise

Oct 29^th, 2006 at 10:45pm

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Hi all,
I am constantly annoyed by the morse noise generated while using the Nav1, Nav2 and ADF. Is there anyway to stop the sound without reducing the volume? I need them for my ND, but I don't like the noise they make.

My ohter question is I read in this forem that to view flight plan in the Free FD's ND one can use the old SB flight plan format(John's post on Free FD). Can someone show me how? I tried to get the older version SB, but I couldn't.
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Reply #1 - Oct 29^th, 2006 at 10:58pm

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ermias,

I use FlightSim Commander as a flight planner specifically because it will save flightplans in the old Sqawkbox format (as well as the new one, the native FS format, and also in a number of other formats). Finding one that will do that is difficult.

I beleive that the old FSNav has the old Squakbox format as an option....... but not the newer version........ and it doesn't work across a network. I checked it out and decided against it.

FSCommander allows saving across the networked computers too....which for me was a major selling point. So the flight planner can be running on one machine, FS2004 on another, and the ND on a third. FSCommander will save the FS flightplan into the FS2004 directory on machine A, and save the Squawkbox version of the same flightplan into the FreeFD-ND working directory on machine B.

They have a trial version that is a free download. It will not save across the network if I remember correctly.....but you can check it out. READ the manual........setting it up wit hthe current airac and data files requires some work.

I have another thread somewhere in this Homebuilt forum about this program with a hotlink. Look around... I can't remember the URL for FSCommander right now. Sorry.

EDIT: found it http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=homebuild;action=display;n...

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......................john

PS: The Morse identifiers are switchable in most aircraft. I use GOflight VRP's for all of my avionics radios....and have a button oprogrammed on each radio to turn the ident audio on and off. The commands are available in the sim via FSUIPC. You just will have to interface something to get a button to work for turning them on and off. Or go with the Goflight VRP's (easy!).

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Reply #2 - Oct 30^th, 2006 at 11:33am

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John,
Thanks for the quick reply. I will use your advice and try the different options. Can't wait to go home

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Reply #3 - Oct 31^st, 2006 at 10:48pm

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John,
I tried FS Commander and it is lovely except that one can't save in the trial mode. At the moment I am debating between FS Commander and FSXpand. Eventually I will have both but for now I am thinking FSXpand would be better to have at hand for my immediate flight deck needs.

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Reply #4 - Nov 6^th, 2006 at 9:48am

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ermias,

You are probably right. You can always fly without the "magenta line" on the FreeFD ND display and navigate other ways. Sometimes I just read the fixes off the paper flight plan and then look at them on the ND display and set a course by routing myself through them.

But you really kind of need a lot of other gauges. Wink

I never had any luck with the FreeFD engine gauges.... terrible framerates. And I remember people on the FreeFD wensite talking about the same. That's where FsExpand comes in. It works well even on minimal machines.

One problem with the FreeFD ND database file is that it is very outdated. So new fixes, VOR changes, and so on are not added. I tried looking at the ND database.... but could not figure out what format it is in. There is a project for someone with some solid contemporary programming skills; figuire out how to update the old ND database with the current airac.

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Reply #5 - Dec 27^th, 2006 at 5:11am

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Ermias... you don't need to have Nav1, Nav2, ADF, etc. selected in order for them to work. Just tune up the frequency and it should work automatically. The morse code is just an identifier to make sure that you are tuned in to the correct navaid. In real life, you would never leave the identifier on cause if would drive you up the wall, excpet on an ndb approach. If you are IMC, inboand to the station on an nbd approach, if the station malfunctions, youd never know.

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Reply #6 - Dec 27^th, 2006 at 3:03pm

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Not sure if you're talking about radio sound within MSFS, but if so:

Call up the radio panel, and look at the audio panel or annunciator panel.
It has buttons for each receiver; pushing the button either enables or disables sound from that receiver.
It doesn't turn the receiver itself on or off, just the sound.

NOTE: in MSFS, many models also do this via the "ident" button on many receivers, but the annunciator (or "audio") panel buttons will override that, and vise-versa.

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Reply #7 - Jan 2^nd, 2007 at 11:39pm

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Thankyou verymuch. Sorry for being late to reply. Actually I realized this by accident when I observed the morse being silent while all the nav-aids were functioning properly. I shouldn't have selected the buttons at the first place.
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