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Spatially Separate Stereo Image of Airspace Alerts and Traffic Warnings


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TimT
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Verbal traffic alerts indeed work very well. While SD algorithms do a good job in reducing the number of traffic alerts to those that are truly relevant, more often then not the odd traffic warning competes in the headset with

- SD's airspace and obstacle warning
- and radio traffic from one or more monitored frequencies

It would be a great idea to 'pan' the stereo image of the verbal alerts? Typically, the radios come in mono, i.e., dead centre. Readability of parallel messages could be much improved if airspace warnings came slightly, say, from the left, and traffic warning slightly from the right. 

Here is a simulation (curtesy to Garmin) of how spatially separating headset input sources can mirror the way our ears naturally “locate” sound in space —  so the pilot can quickly identify which ones to focus on first.



Edited 6/22/2019 9:30:52 AM by TimT
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I'm intrigued by this but not sure the platforms we use make it straightforward to do so. I spent some time looking at Android documentation and there appears to be no way to control the audio channels that speech output goes to. On iOS you can do it, but as an all-or-nothing thing, i.e. we could have both channels or left only for example.

Beyond that and we're looking at a much more expensive feature, to synthesize the audio to disk or memory and adjust the balance ourselves.

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