Greetings. The FS24 weather is repeating in a loop using two character voices announcing and then another reading back the weather. I’ve changed COM frequencies in the aircraft. The top menu bar communication window says COM1 and 2 are not in use. The only way to silence them is in Settings- Sound and setting characters voices to 0%.
Any ideas on how to quiet them using the radios?
It begins as soon as my wheels leave the ground.
I don’t know how to explain this, but some aircraft seem to have a hidden COM 3 that will pick up the frequency to which it’s tuned. What airport is it identifying in the transmission and where is your aircraft relative to that?
I’m in the Kodiak. It has just COMs 1 & 2. The airport is KMRB. This also happened with another aircraft. I disconnected all,of the peripherals, thinking it may be a binding. Still they wouldn’t shut up. On the ground before taking off all is normal. As soon as the wheels leave the ground the looping weather conversation begins.
To clarify, MRB is the airport ID in the weather report, the airport from which you’re departing, or both?
KMRB is the airport. I start cold and dark on a parking spot. I can’t say specifically if the airport was announced but it was weather matching the sim environment. I’ll need to restart again to do that test.
Okay, you’re starting at KMRB. When the weather starts playing as you go airborne, what is the location ID in the weather report? Is it also MRB? Or is it for another airport? It should say right at the top of the broadcast.
There’s a well-known bug where a weather station transmitting on 124.85 hits an invisible COM3 (that seems to exist for several aircraft and happens to be tuned to 124.85) and just keeps looping until you’re out of range. The ATIS for Salinas airport (KSNS) does this all over the San Francisco Bay Area - wheels off the ground and it’s “Salinas Airport information x-ray, 0157 Zulu…” Very annoying.
I need to boot back in. I’ll let you know in 10-15min.
Which com is it connected to when you open the ATC window? (make sure you have the option to show the text in the ATC window turned on).
Did you try to change the frequency of that com to turn off the AWOS stream?
It’s not going to be related to a binding. It’s going to be because there is an active com (as @CharlieFox said, there are three available), and the electrical system has that radio turned on, and that radio is tuned to an ATIS/AWOS channel near you. As @CharlieFox00 said, the radio doesn’t actually have to exist in the plane, it could be that third comm, and the author gave power to that comm in their electrical system.
Even some Unicom frequencies are set up as AWOS at some airports in real life, such as at 59B Newton Field in Jackman, ME. In the airport data they submit to the FAA, they list their unicom frequency as being an AWOS as well. FS just processes this data, and so set the unicom frequency used by many airports in the area as an AWOS for that airport. This, as you can imagine, unfortunately squelched the Unicom frequency at a ton of airports in the area. So I had to redo the airport and move that AWOS frequency so I could properly set up and use the Unicom frequency at several other airports in the area.
My bet: it’s Winchester Regional (KOKV)
Very annoying.
Eh, you’ll get the same thing in real life if you leave a radio tuned to a frequency that’s local to you. I would mark that as working perfectly.
Or did you mean it’s annoying that FS blindly translates the databases it reads. Again, eh, what’s it supposed to do? If it’s that way in real life, that’s what I’d expect. Yeah, some things in life are annoying…
Except if it’s a hidden com 3, that needs to be addressed. Unsure if it’s at the aircraft dev level or the sim level. It doesn’t happen with every single aircraft, so I tend to think the former.
Again, not much Asobo can do. The author has to choose to power that comm. If it’s not powered, it won’t work. Sloppy/lazy dev practices. I think you can just say “power:comms” (I’d have to look up the exact wording). What’s Asobo supposed to do? That might be the best way to write it, rather than having 3 connections, if the plane actually has 3 comms.
I agree, it might be on the publisher. It might also be based on an older FS2020 build that required a workaround at the time. Either way, yeah, it’s probably more on the dev to solve it.
I just posed this question to the SWS Discord. I’ll let you know what I hear.
It’s one reason I go into my .flt files and change the default radio channels.
That’s where the 124.85 would be defined for comm3. Possibly. I don’t know what frequencies are the initial conditions for comms without definition in a .flt.
While restarting the sim an update downloaded. This time changing the G1000 COM1 frequecy did shut them up where it didnt before that update. It may now be fixed. Further testing required. Thank you everyone that responded.
I am having the same issue flying through Mexico. Either direction. Harligen airport is repeating weather constantly. No way to hush it up. Flying a Citation CJ4. Have changed from COM 1 to COM 2. No change, I am thinking that this is a bug. I’ve restarted my sim, my computer and all other aspects that can be restarted. Always comes back no matter what I do. Makes it super hard to hear the actual ATC announcements.
Checks whether Valley Int’l has an ATIS on 124.85, sure enough it does. You’ve got a hidden com 3 tuned to that.
I’m running into this same issue at the moment. ATIS constantly repeating.. yet not on COM1 or on COM2 (or NAV1 or NAV2 for that matter). I’ve tried changing the current and standby frequencies for all the radio channels and ATIS never stops.
It’s not just one or two aircraft though.. it’s everything.