Talking Varios

On May 17, 4:18*pm, John Cochrane
wrote:
On May 17, 3:55*pm, glider wrote:

If Hallmark can make a Birthday card talk, why can't we have a talking
vario? Meg Ryan voice from Harry met Sally.
*"Yes, yes, YES".... for climb.
*"Are you through".... when in sink.
*GA

More seriously, voice chips are cheap, and it would be quite easy for
vario designers to put quantiative informaton in voice form.

For example, when thermaling, the pointer and tone are good for the
fast vario, since that information comes quickly and the actual number
is less important. But the averager could report the number ("3.2
knots....3.4 knots...") every 20 seconds or so. The averager is a
reading where the actual number matters. Then you'd never have to look
at the panel!

Similarly, glide information is quantitative, so a good candiate for
voice chip. "263 feet over Mc 3....242 feet over Mc 3....152 over Mc
3..." every 30 seconds or so.

Safety warnings are much better with voice than with tones. "Lower
Gear! .... Lower Gear!" is so much better than the famous "What are
you guys calling me on the radio about? I can't hear you there's some
stupid buzzer going off in here!"

The ClearNav has implemented this for airspace. A lovely voice comes
on and says "airspace, airspace". I've been bugging them to add the
above; maybe if others do so as well they'll do it. (I bug them about
a lot of stuff!)

John Cochrane

SeeYou and Winpilot have had audible alerts for Airspace (and traffic)
for several years.

Darryl

Careful what you ask for... you might get it. Does anyone remember
"Your door is ajar...". I would like nothing less than to hear "300
feet under final glide...340 feet under final glide...410 feet under
final glide..."

Matt

On 2010/05/18 09:21 AM, Matt Herron Jr. wrote:
Careful what you ask for... you might get it. Does anyone remember
"Your door is ajar...". I would like nothing less than to hear "300
feet under final glide...340 feet under final glide...410 feet under
final glide..."

Matt
Maybe we could record Brian Loader going "Oh-dear, oh-dear"

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On May 18, 2:21*am, "Matt Herron Jr." wrote:
Careful what you ask for... you might get it. *Does anyone remember
"Your door is ajar...". *I would like nothing less than to hear "300
feet under final glide...340 feet under final glide...410 feet under
final glide..."

Matt

Now you're talking! At 500 feet, using the approprate terrain model to
discover quarry and forest below, the voice chip changes to "Oh Sh*#&"
saving you the trouble of exclaiming every pilot's last words.
John Cochrane