Connected. See traffic. KAPA works. Can't hear/speak in CA.

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272SP
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Connected. See traffic. KAPA works. Can't hear/speak in CA.

Post by 272SP »

My subscription to PE is

"You have a PilotEdge ZLA + Western Expansion Monthly Membership subscription."

I've had that for about a week or more.

Flying in Colorado at Centennial (KAPA) works fine. I can hear and communicate. So this is not my audio settings.

When I connect anywhere in California e.g. LAX or Santa Monica, I can't hear anyone speaking and can't communicate. I've tried a mic check on various clearance delivery frequencies including LAX. When I reconnect at KAPA it works fine.

I loaded up the pilotedge receiver and brought up the live map. I can actually see myself sitting at LAX on the ramp. So I'm definitely connected. I can also receive audio and hear everyone when I'm running the PE receiver. So again, no audio issues. It's just when I'm in CA for some reason I can't hear or speak.

I've double checked I have the "Combined" monthly plan at $34.90 so I should have access to everything.

Has anyone seen this before? Any clues as to what the issue might be?

Thanks!!

Mark.
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When you are sitting at LAX, which frequencies are you trying?
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Re: Connected. See traffic. KAPA works. Can't hear/speak in

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The real world clearance delivery frequency. 120.35.
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I've also tried creating a new trial PE account which has access to the ZLA and tried LAX again with no luck.

Also tried switching to different wifi. No luck.

Same result every time. Works at KAPA. Doesn't work at LAX but I can see myself on the map and can see traffic.
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Post by FDXDave »

Probably not the issue, but if your in a prop plane make sure you are idling with enough RPM's to allow enough juice to the radios. The battery will drain at low idle in Xplane. I sit at around 900 1000 rpm and monitor battery and alternators.
Good luck.
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I actually think it's a radio issue. At some CA airports I can hear ATC and pilots but it's very staticky. So I guess there is emulation in pilotedge that causes the radio to behave like a real radio. i.e. you can't hear ATC if you're too far away?

The static sounds emulated and identical. I didn't realize that PE did that. Can someone confirm? Is there a documentation page about this?
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It may be that you have COMM2 tuned to something else. Ensure COMM2 is fully off (for your testing purposes) or tune it to 123.45 to ensure it’s not picking up any other frequencies. Then use COMM1 to tune the airport’s ground/clearance frequency.
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Re: Connected. See traffic. KAPA works. Can't hear/speak in

Post by Keith Smith »

As Kevin suggested, if you're hearing static, then it's likely that your com2 radio is also active for receiving and that you have it tuned to a far off frequency that you're just barely picking up.

Disable the com2 for receiving via the audio panel, or set it to a non-ATC freq and try again.

Keith
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