![]() To listen, just hit the green PLAY (arrow) button. You'll see in the box of squiggles how it has compressed things. you can hear on a stereo channel the aircraft leave tower in one ear and switch to departure in the other ear, or whatever.) On stereo, it will by default do the two channels separately, so they stay consistent with each other temporally. Audacity will apply the truncate silence effect and cut out all the silence. Just use the defaults that are in there they're fine. You'll get a dialogue box with various parameters you can change. (Always do this if you forget to do it, it won't truncate the silence because you haven't selected the portion of the file you want it to work on.) Then click EFFECT from the top menu and go down to and click on TRUNCATE SILENCE. Now lets compress it: Click SELECT from the top menu. You'll see one or two lines of squiggles indicating where there is audio in the file. In the box, select your downloads folder and double click on the relevant mp3 file. Click Open in the dropdown menu, which opens a dialogue box. The whole file will then download to your computer's downloads folder.įire up Audacity. And it's free.įirst, download the liveatc audio file to your computer, as follows: After you have clicked "SUBMIT" and pulled up the audio archive player on the liveatc web site, click the vertical 3 dots to the right of the slider on the player. It's actually very-powerful and totally-overkill for this purpose, but it works very well and is easy to use for this simple mission. I use Audacity, a free open-source audio processor you can find online. Then you can turn a half-hour archive into 10 minutes or less of actual talking. One solution is to cut out the silence with an audio file processor. So always double-check that it's set to give you the correct date (which may be one day later), correct time, and correct feed if you go to pull say the next half-hour of ATC.)Īdvanced user procedure: Because most of the archives have long gaps where nobody's talking, unless you're dealing with ORD or JFK or something, and even then late at night they have gaps, you can spend a half-hour listening to mostly-silence while trying to find what you're trying to find. ![]() The first several times it did that to me, I didn't double-check each element (date, time, feed) for accuracy and then wondered why I wasn't getting what I wanted. So it might leave feed you selected, but go back to today's date. Sometimes, it will leave one or more elements, but go back to the beginning on others. The site clears out what you have entered. (NOTE: if you want to pull up a later or earlier archive and hit the back button on your browser to get the dialogue box again, you usually will have to re-enter the date, time and feed. It will pull up a player and start playing. (For advanced users, you can search in the main body for live feeds, which has specific descriptions of the frequencies and feeds, and then try to find that feed in the dropdown list so you know what you're getting.) Center is under Z (as in ZNY) usually, so would be further down in the dropdown list.Ĭhoose the 1/2 hour long archive in Zulu time.Ĭlick "SUBMIT". Select to the feed you're looking for in the dropdown list. Use google to translate local time to Zulu time (and DATE, because it may be one day later). No dice.Ĭlick on "ATC Audio Archives" on the left hand side of the page about halfway down.Įverything is in zulu time. I've looked everywhere on the site, tried to Google how to do this. 9-1-1 calls and dispatches people can obtain. For instance, when the ops persons calls for police they call 9-1-1 and get routed to the police authority that oversees the airport. Well I was an airline employee so I was privy to the information, as for people outside the airlines I’m not sure how many people have access but I would assume there are ways to get bits and pieces of the info. ACARS message is usually only between company and flight deck with archives maintained within the company. Question is how do these folks have access to these records unless they were company employees or crew members leaking these messages. That can also be done by acars, seen some enthusiastic people also with acars messages records. ![]() If it's a disturbance or an issue on board but doesn't require emergency status and just met by police typically the flight deck will call their airline's station ops and communicate the issue with them and then they'll usually pick up the phone and call the cops/medics.
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