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Azure ATC connection is lost without the on-screen warning and without automatically switching to Offline ATC mode.
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Fly any aircraft on an IFR route of at least 1 hour duration between any major International airports during daylight hours.
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That’s not a bug, that’s a feature - why would there be an Offline ATC voicepack if the Azure ATC voicepack connection never failed? The Offline ATC voicepack is meant to be there for that reason.
The actual bug is that the Azure offline error message doesn’t pop up, and we are not automatically switched to Offline ATC mode.
But sometimes the red and white switching to offline voices message pops up and all sides of the ATC conversation continue to be heard, albeit in cartoon voices. Other times voices are lost without the offline voices taking their place as described in the 645 vote bug. Maybe in the latter case, the Azure server is overwhelmed by so many connections that it reaches some limit where it can’t even switch voices to offline.
I have experienced this problem since few months on every flight. I already thought about using the offline ATC. But for that purpose I would need to install the English language pack on my operting system which I do not want to do.
Try switching to the second com radio.
So far I have had three or four occasions where this problem has happened. And every time I could get ATC to talk to me again by switching to com2.
So to me that means it has nothing to do with bandwidth, azure, or the individual sound cards etc. It seems to be simply a bug in the software introduced in one of the latest SUs.
It’s a day-1 bug and im convinced its kind of the same whats happening when getting “low bandwith” red pop out and being switched offline and just get washed out textures. think the same happens to the online atc voices …: low bandwith → downgraded to nothing or the offline baby-voice?!
No it’s not …. As I have described… switch to COM2 and ATC can be heard again immediately AND switch back to COM1 and ATC is mute again.
And this NEVER happened to me at all until the last SU. I have had a much slower ISP the first 12 month after release.
Offline AI and FSLTLTraffic Injector…though I do forget the latter occasionally.
I do not have the muted ATC as often as some folks it seems. But when it did happen it was usually with a more complex aircraft like the PMDG DC6 or 737.
Though I did also have it with the Quest Kodiak, and that was also on a relatively short flight.
Still switching from COM1 to COM2 did bring the normal voice back immediately.
And that is the problem with the offline voice pack. English for msfs is ok for me but in rl my computer speaks german to me and i will not change that for a buggy sim and devs that refuse to fix a bug that is two years old!
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