Pilot and ATC do not pronounce "ExecJet" correctly

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I logged this in Zendesk for MSFS 2020 in 2023. Zendesk #197292, for reference. It was not fixed. Now, I’m logging the bug again for MSFS 2024.

The pronunciation of “ExecJet”, which is the callsign for NetJets, a commercial operator of business jets, is wrong. ATC mispronounces it. The pilot mispronounces it.

Here is what the fs-base-atc\en-US.locPak file looks like in MSFS 2024. It’s also what the fs-base\en-US.locPak file looks like in MSFS. The entries for ExecJet should be between these two airlines and then tweaked for proper pronunciation:

  "ATCCOM.AIRLINE EVERGREEN.0.text": "Evergreen",
  "ATCCOM.AIRLINE EVERGREEN.0.tts": "Evergreen",
  "ATCCOM.AIRLINE EXPO.0.text": "Expo",
  "ATCCOM.AIRLINE EXPO.0.tts": "Expo",

Unfortunately, even if I manually add in the airline, I can’t tweak the pronunciation. So I guess there’s some code that ties back to these entries.

I know this seems like a small thing, but if you fly out of airports where NetJets operates (usually class D), this can be aggravating, because they fly a lot of aircraft.

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Here are two YouTube videos of ATC pronouncing the callsign properly in the real world [edit: okay, apparently Discourse hates YouTube videos as links, so I have to embed them…sigh]:

MSFS 2024:

Here is NetJets 214, with ATC and the pilot pronouncing the callsign incorrectly in the sim.

MSFS 2020:
This is the video I gave to Zendesk in 2023 for 2020. Reposting it here:

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