Originally Posted by
JuicyLucy
The audio quality from Swanwick TC is generally not brilliant, although it better than when LATCC first moved. Mixture of headset and the digital techniques used to send the audio to remote transmitter/receiver sites. Some sectors are better then others, and the newer designs of aircraft radios seem to suffer more. I can now understand the French better than the English!
Swanwick is moving to VOIP in the next 18 months or so. Who knows if this will be better or worse.
I hate working 787's as their radio quality is awful. I do wonder if it's to do with the composite construction not accentuating the signal as much as metalic construction does?