OK, I know that this is not going to be a very popular question at Oncourse, but I dare to ask anyway
I can't help but be very conscious when I load PF3 of how many of the airlines we are presented with are now long gone, and of course how many more are missing. Clearly the original sound files are as they are and no one is going to produce a brand new set (sadly!!). But is there no way to 'refresh' the sound database? Easy to remove the defunct airlines, but how to incorporate missing ones? It must be possible at least to cut and paste a good number of the current wav files to make new ones? The end user can't really do that, first because of the enormity of producing so many files - and also (speaking for myself), even though I have tried, I have never managed to produce a .wav file that PF3 will actually read and 'speak'. Well, very possibly the good folks at Oncourse have no better method themselves for editing/creating the files than those that use PF3. I don't know...
I am pretty sure I know what the gist of the answer will be to this (if there is one!), and even before it's posted I can say I do understand the dilemma - but it is a shame that the ATC side of PF3 (most of it, that is!) is becoming ever more obsolete I've been using Oncourse software since S-Combo first came out, so a miraculous renewal (somehow) would be so welcome.. at least to add the most obvious missing airlines and callsigns - GoAir for instance: a huge Indian Airline. There must be dozens of files with the sound 'Go' and hundreds/thousands with the sound 'Air'. (it'd just take a few dozen (!!) willing volunteers to record new ones too...! They wouldn't have to be the same voices as the originals of course - I am sure Dave L would be happy to repeat his previous triumphs! Haha)
OK, nobody snap my head off now please!
Martin