I am looking for a way, as some may have seen (definitely including Dave M.! ) to be able to request a climb or descent when I need to, without the limitations in place as to when I can do that (the current options don't work in X-Plane, particularly when you fly VR/3D and so can't see the PC monitor). With XP11 and a VR headset, some of my requirements of PF3 are probably rather different from the majority of people here, so I don't expect updates necessarily to match what I am hoping for (though Dave does his best). In fact, with recent betas, things are getting further from what I am looking for. I therefore thought I'd try to arrange things myself...
One thing that does work in XP is that I can request a change in altitude 'due to clouds' (though no longer 'due to turbulence', as that option has been removed in the latest beta). As I never fly with clouds (they flash and move oddly in X-Plane - not one of its best features!), asking for a change of altitude 'due to clouds' is decidedly odd, and I've never used it. I therefore (and here I come to the point of my post!) located the sound files which relate to 'due to clouds' (pfchat172*.wav: the asterisk can be any letter from A to Z of course), and replaced all of them with a silent file, in the hope of being able to request a descent with no 'cloud excuse' tagged on at the end. But I still get 'due to clouds' at the end when I use hotkey 3 or 4, in spite of all the 'cloud' sound files having been overwritten with silence (I did back up the originals!).
Is it possible to get this file replacement to work as I intended somehow, does anyone know? I was careful to use a silent sound file with the same audio attributes. Not as if PF3 uses an FMOD, so I am not sure why I still get the 'clouds' reference. Where is it being generated? (I didn't rebuild the PF3 database safter overwriting the wav files - didn't seem connected with this issue, but...?)
Thanks.