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Are the archives just really low quality or do ATCs and pilots possess superhuman abilities to understand super low quality audio
by snek 8y ago
Are the archives just really low quality or do ATCs and pilots possess superhuman abilities to understand super low quality audio
- asdfasgasdgasdg 8y agoThis is all captured by civilian equipment on the ground. The stuff the ATCs themselves have access to is much better.
- i_am_proteus 8y agoAs someone who operated marine VHF ("bridge-to-bridge") professionally for years, I'll say that these recordings sound perfectly intelligible. I imagine ATCs and pilots have a similar culture of "get the point across as fast as possible, but not so fast that it is no longer unambiguous." Especially airband, where everyone in each area tends to guard and use a single frequency.
- Casseres 8y agoUS Air Traffic Controller here. We have what we call "phraseology". The FAA Order 7110.65 prescribes how to say what we say. It makes for safe and efficient transmissions. If there's a set way of saying something, then pilots don't have to guess what we mean if every controller says it in a different way.
- Novashi 8y agoYou do need a bit of time for your brain to get used to it.
- scoot 8y agoDid we listen to the same recording? It was perfectly clear for me...
- mrob 8y agoIt's a 16kbps MP3 file, and MP3 doesn't work well at such a low bitrate. I found it very difficult to make out the speech over the compression artifacts. I frequently watch videos at 2x speed, so I don't think I have unusually bad audio comprehension skill.
- efrafa 8y agoIt reminds me my favorite pilot story https://youtu.be/ILop3Kn3JO8 https://youtu.be/ILop3Kn3JO8