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AS380 Mark Richards Offline
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01-14-2006, 12:31 PM
jpratt-AS041 Wrote:Oh and one other question, I noticed that there is a new comms program out now. What do you guys recommend? Roger Wilco or AVC (Advanced Voice Client)? I've used RW but not AVC... any thoughts?

-Jason
Jason, both approved clients for VATSIM (Squawkbox 3.0 and FSInn) now have their own built in voice client so there is no need for an extra one.

Links for you:
Squawkbox 3.0 - http://www.squawkbox.ca
FSInn 1.1 - http://www.mcdu.com/

I have my personal preference but both have advantages over the other. Let me know if you have any problems.

Mark

 
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01-14-2006, 06:15 PM
Mark Richards AS380 Wrote:Jason, both approved clients for VATSIM (Squawkbox 3.0 and FSInn) now have their own built in voice client so there is no need for an extra one.

Links for you:
Squawkbox 3.0 - http://www.squawkbox.ca
FSInn 1.1 - http://www.mcdu.com/

I have my personal preference but both have advantages over the other. Let me know if you have any problems.

Mark

Thanks Mark, I downloaded SB3 but it's giving me initialization fits when I try to run FS9, so I've installed FSInn 1.1 and it's working fine out of the box. Although it really looks as though the documentation for this program is slim.

What is your preference. I'm open to hear your thoughts on the two seperate programs. Since your a veteran of VATSIM it would be interesting to hear.

I'm getting there tho.. I've got FSInn installed and have gone thru their flash tutorials on connecting to VATSIM. I've downloaded ServInfo to get an idea of who is flying right now in the US. Now it's time to remember how to get a bid flight here at AS. Smile

Thanks again..

-Jason
 
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01-16-2006, 12:53 AM
Well my personal prefernce is SB3 but only because I believe it intrgrates with FS better because it uses FSUIPC. The developers of FSInn decided not to use FSUIPC and it has caused a few problems for some people.

I was a beta tester for FSInn ver 1.0 and used it before the release of SB3.

FSInn has one distinct advantage over SB3 in that you can choose what flight model you see other a/c as whereas SB3 uses default models with differnet liveries to reduce bandwidth and CPU usage. If you have a good CPU, you can choose any model on your PC and it will dispaly that, including any payware a/c but remember if you have LOTS of traffic it will reduce framerates so be careful.

At present it is at about 70/30 (indicative only) SB3 users vs. FSInn users on VATSIM.

Mark

 
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