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7/13/2022 9:42 AM
 

Any idea when we might see discrete alerts with different sounds for different alerts?  I asked about this a year or two back and was told it was coming, but it's still not in the product.  It's annoying to have all the alerts use the same sound and then have to take my eyes off flying and look down to see if the alert is important or just an annoyance.

Standard voice alerts like "traffic", "obstacle", and "terrain" would be ideal.  Certainly if this is a feature my 496 had 15 years ago, it's something my 740b should be able to do in 2022.

 
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7/13/2022 10:04 AM
 

chime is the alert sound, and we do have "TERRAIN" alerts already.

 
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7/13/2022 10:12 AM
 
Brolin McKay wrote:

chime is the alert sound, and we do have "TERRAIN" alerts already.

Sure.  But Chime is the alert for traffic, obtsacles, and airspace.  Can we get discrete alerts for these?  I hate having to put my eyes in the cockpit when I get a chime to figure out if I'm being told there is traffic or an obstacle.

 
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7/18/2022 12:17 PM
 

This is in support of old ears: Keep ALL sounds below 1 kHz. It's the consonant sounds that go away first, and that pretty much means sounds above 1 kHz. That's 1,000 cycles per second, approximately the beep sound oif most microwave ovens.

What?! Microwave ovens beep?  Well, I never!

That's not a joke, by the way. My wife can't hear her iPhone's lost/alert sound that the FindMy app on her iPad makes it play when it's lost. So that's useless, and she has to get me to phone her phone. But it all evens out in the end, because I can't hear my iPhone's lost/alert sound at any distance, either. And that's with hearing aids.

If you're smirking--just wait a few years.

 
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