The difference between name (...Clouds) and address (...cloud) really triggers my ocd.
Listen to the Clouds
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#22Do people easily understand these transmissions? I always think there must be something wrong with either my English, or my ears because I barely understand a number here and there, even with headphones.
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#23I find the voice of the operator at HK airport incredibly soothing.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Berlin?
It is not allowed to listen to radio transmissions you aren't the destination of in Germany and apperently in the UK. So listening to policeradio, AirTrafficControl or anything similar is prohibited by law. https://forums.liveatc.net/listener-forum/german-atc/
Any idea why not?
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#25Wow, surprised to see this on HN! Creator here, if you have any feedback, please just comment here or ping me on twitter @andersaberg, I'll take airport requests etc there :) Have a good one, A
Seems to max out my CPU on MBP macOS Sierra Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit)
Could be the background clouds video + software rendering.
Try taking out and see what happens.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems to max out my CPU on MBP macOS Sierra Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit)
That's really surprising. I have no problems on my win machine which I guess is why I missed it. Is it the same problem even if you run it in backgorund? Have some listeners that will pause the youtube video when that happens (which should minimize CPU)
For me the high CPU usage seems to happen because of the video background. As soon as I remove the
the CPU usage drops to normal on my MacBook Pro (with integrated GPU)
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#27This reminds me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Broadcasting_(b...
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#28Do people easily understand these transmissions? I always think there must be something wrong with either my English, or my ears because I barely understand a number here and there, even with headphones.
You really do get used to it. First time I got into a light plane, I had exactly the same reaction as you - it was all gobbledegook. By the time I took my first proper lesson, I'd started reading the textbook, and it was mostly making sense. Within a few hours I was fluent, and things like this recording made sense.
The big thing is understanding the vocabulary, and the things they're likely to say. It's called the "pop-out effect" - once you know what you're looking for, it's much easier to find it. You can think of it in Bayesian terms - an increased prior on certain words and phrases makes them much quicker to detect.
(I will also say that many people find American aviators/ATC much harder work. They use less standardised phraseology - perhaps because they don't have so many different native languages all crowded up into a small airspace. See if, eg, Amsterdam or Dublin is easier for you to understand.)
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#29Wow, surprised to see this on HN! Creator here, if you have any feedback, please just comment here or ping me on twitter @andersaberg, I'll take airport requests etc there :) Have a good one, A
This is really lovely, thank you!
Possibly like a lot of other folks here, I discovered this phenomenon of "radio chatter" over "ambient electronic music" via http://youarelistening.to/ - I find it so helpful for concentration.
I came up with my own improvised "mixing desk" using tabs in a separate browser window (makes it easier to separate from your main work. The most common tab URLs are:
http://priyom.org/ - For listening to numbers stations (uses websdr below!) http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ - For basically any shortwave transmissions http://www.broadcastify.com/ - Various scanner feeds from all over http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/11888/web - A fascinating repeater that I love listening to
And finally, I overlay one or more of these over my own Spotify playlist of ambient sounds. It's public, so I'll plug it here. I put this on random and use a crossfade of 10 seconds.
https://open.spotify.com/user/n_sonic/playlist/5tEUDt2X2QB0S...
Once again, thanks for this! Will be recommending it to folks today.
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#30Do people easily understand these transmissions? I always think there must be something wrong with either my English, or my ears because I barely understand a number here and there, even with headphones.
When I did my PPL one of the instructors gave us a CD full of recordings that we could listen to to train our ear for it. Matching that to transcripts helped - and it also helps once you know the lingo, since it's mostly a limited set of words and the phraseology has a specific structure.
For example: Altitudes and flight levels:
3,500 is spoken as "three thousand five hundred".
13,500 is spoken as "one three thousand five hundred".
But other numbers (like times, directions, etc) have every digit spoken, for example 10 minutes is "one zero minutes" or wind direction 220 is "wind direction two two zero". Speed reading would be something like "one niner zero knots" for 190 kt.
The sentence structure is also relatively strictly defined, for instance at an unattended airport you would always transmit in this order:
(1) where you are
(2) who you are
(3) what you intend
(4) repeat where you are
So you'd say something like: "Swartkops traffic(1), small Jabiru Kilo India Tango(2), left downwind for runway one eight, touch and go(3), at Swartkops(4)"
This kind of strict structure and limited lexicon does make it understandable after a bit of practice, since you are expecting certain words to show up.