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little too robotic, we do think it is more than adequate. Future versions might include
human like voices. In addition, should you want better voices, there are plenty
available from third party companies, like Cepstral, AT&T, Acapela, just to name a
few.
If you are a real world pilot or aspiring to become one, you will feel right at home.
You will be able to use your airline company checklist for rehearsal. One limitation is
that the current level of PC flight simulation is such that not everything you do in a
real cockpit is replicable. There is no way to reset a breaker for instance or switch a
firewall off. But we are getting there
For others, it will take some effort to familiarise yourself with aviation terminology,
before you can appreciate the value of this software.
If you are running Microsoft Flight Simulator X, be aware that when you start the
simulator after installing this application, you will come across these two warnings.
This warning is just that FSX is going to load our module, called FsInsider.dll, and
you must click Run. Otherwise, our application will not be able to retrieve data
from the simulator
Simply click Yes, to make sure our FsInsider.dll, gets loaded every time the flight
simulator starts.
When you run the flight simulator in full screen mode, the user interface will be
hidden. But dont worry, as your trusty co-pilot is still there in the background,
waiting for instructions.
The user interface has 6 separate tabs where you can make adjustments. Session
free settings are saved and restored the next time you start the application. Some
tabs can be disabled under certain conditions. Or you could elect to disable some.
Say for example that you do not want the ATC feature because you want to use a
different application for that matter. So be it
General
Here you can enable or disable a particular feature of the
application, as well as select other options.
Command
Through this tab, you can re-assign voices to crew members,
and also tweak the speech recognition engine.
Vista or Win 7 users will notice that the change buttons appear
inactive. By default only Microsoft Anna is available on
Windows Vista or Win 7. To talk to Ground engineer, you will
need an extra voice at least. There are dozens of commercially
available third party voices.
Once you have more than one voice installed on your system,
you can click change to assign the voice you want to the
crewmember you like.
Checklist
This page allows you among other things to view, print and
even change the checklist you want the co-pilot to read. What
about using your airline one. It has to follow a certain format
albeit simple one.
ATC
Here you can make some adjustments to ATC feature options,
assuming you elected to use the feature. If you have installed a
joystick, you can assign a particular button, to use as push-to-
talk, when transmitting messages to ATC.
Monitor
Here you can make your co-pilot as alert or as lazy as you want
depending on what you want him to monitor. You can bet that
he will hardly miss a malfunction or failure when you give him
the full go ahead. Real pilots are trained to perform visual scans
to try to spot trouble points. But they will not come anywhere
Simulator
From this page, you can customize the level of control you
want to have on the Microsoft Flight Simulator user interface.
If you wish, you could control the entire range of menus and
dialog boxes in the flight simulator window, simply by saying
what you see on the screen. This feature, however, has only
been tested on the English version of FS. And because it relies
on speech recognition technology, it is not currently possible to
provide this feature on non-English versions of FS.
There is an additional seventh tab (About), but it is only for information purpose.
At the right top corner of the User interface there are three buttons you can click. One
to close the application, one to minimise and maximise the window and one to request
speech help about a topic.
At the very top of the user interface lays the message area. You will see relevant
information displayed there now and then.
When you right-click anywhere on the user interface, a context menu will appear,
showing some more options available.
Hide control Panel: Click this to hide the MCE user interface. The menu will then
change to Display control panel.
Use Screen Narrator: Particularly useful for blind pilots. When this option is enabled,
you will hear voice feedback about most actions you perform on the user interface.
You will also hear New ATC options when the FSX or FS9 built-in ATC menu
changes.
Show Commands in FS: When enabled, whatever is recognised by the speech engine,
will be displayed in red font within the flight simulator top left corner scenery
window.
Use Radio Static noise: When enabled, you will hear a squelch sound followed by a
background static noise throughout your ATC transmission, when pressing the
assigned joystick button or DEL keyboard key.
Force UI to Main screen: If running a multi-monitor set-up, this will allow you to put
the user interface back to the main screen.
Force flight mode: Useful for those extremely rare occasions where somehow MCE
thinks it is still in Dialog Mode when its obviously not, and consequently refuses
to handle flight related voice commands. By clicking this option, MCE will be forced
to Flight Mode.
Note: This context menu also appears when you right-click the MCE icon in
Windows tray (right bottom of main screen)
Hardware Requirements
Our application does not need the fastest machine around; in fact it uses very little
resources, as it is only using the command and control side of speech recognition, as
opposed to the dictation capability. And on its own it could run on a 500 MHZ
processor and 128 MB of RAM.
Because its running alongside another resource hungry application, which is the
flight simulator, it is wise to state the following.
To run Multi Crew Experience you will need the following minimum specs
To get a better crew co-ordination with Multi Crew Experience you will need the
following recommended specifications:
To get a better crew co-ordination with Multi Crew Experience you will need the
following recommended specifications:
Software Requirements
Supported operating systems are:
In contrast, to talk to ATC, you need to either press a pre-assigned joystick button, or
the <DEL> (delete) key of the keyboard. You must hold down the joystick button or
the delete keyboard key throughout your transmission.
Bear in mind, that the <END> key of the keyboard has been designated as some sort
of microphone mute button. So if you want to temporarily disable all recognition, hold
down the <END> key.
Incidentally, if you are a fan of TeamSpeak or IVAO, you will find this useful, as the
only thing you will have to do, is assign the <END> key in those applications for
interaction with online players, therefore avoiding accidental recognition of speech
intended for remote players.
However, because we understand you may need to run other speech based
applications, we have made an option available so that the speech engine can be
shared if it needs to.
Open the file mce.ini using notepad, and look at the following section
[GO-FLIGHT]
Use=0
TimeOut=3000
If the section is missing, manually add the 3 lines above, just before the
[CHECKLIST] section.
Timeout (3000 milliseconds by default) is the time that needs to elapse before MCE
considers that you have finished dialling. It can be set from 2000 to 5000 milliseconds
Save mce.ini
Also make sure all your B737 installations are using the latest service packs
http://www.precisionmanuals.com/pages/downloads/updates.html
At this time, you are expected to own both B737/600/700 and B737/800/900
packages for the feature to work.
Disabling voice-over
Those of you who get annoyed by the voice over stating transition between Flight
mode and Dialogue Mode, can disable that by switching relevant option OFF in
mce.ini file
Limitations
This application will help the keen flight simmer to operate the
multi-crew aircraft in a more realistic way. But by no means
does it claim to do everything by the book.
It you are eager to use Microsoft Flight Simulator as a learning
tool, you might as well go the extra mile, and get used to do
things the way the professionals do it.
How many times have you been holding the joystick on final,
and desperately trying to find that F7 keyboard key to extend the
flaps? Needless to say, this breeds very bad habits, and makes
Troubleshooting
Windows Vista
If you experience problems with this application, please try the following first.
Make sure your system meets the minimum hardware and software specs
requirements above. This is a highly optimised application, and no effort
was spared to make the experience as smooth as possible. But the fact is,
this application has to contend for system resources with another processor
intensive, memory hungry beast, called a flight simulator.
If your sound card is less than 4 years old, you should be OK, but this is not
an absolute rule.
Make sure in the Text to Speech tab that at least, all three (Mike, Sam,
Mary) voices are available if you are running Windows XP, or Microsoft
Anna at least if you are running Windows 7 or Windows Vista.
Make sure you have the matching fsInsider.dll in your simulator folder.
Dll should be present in FSX folder /and/or FS9\modules\ folder. If missing
manually copy it from unzipped downloaded package.
If for some unknown reason you cannot start MCE, please proceed
as follows...
If you dont see an English US language in your panel (refer to next screenshot),
chances are you are running a non-English edition of Windows.
In that case use Windows Update to install the English language pack.
You are running a localised edition of Windows Vista or Win 7 other than the
Ultimate or Enterprise edition.
In this scenario, the only way you can install the English language pack, is to use a
third party tool called Vistalizator.
Download the appropriate MUI packs suitable for your Windows version
Do not try to run the MUI pack directly, as it would not allow you to install
additional languages unless you are running Ultimate or Enterprise edition of
Vista. Or Win 7.
Instead, load English language through Vistalizator program, once the latter is
installed.