Matt_hooks, Smashing:ok: :D
..spent about a half hour to get it stuck..
Thanks

another one useful to remember (off the topic), regards Squawk codes...saw it somewhere on these forums...many thanks to the original poster of that ;)

Cheers....

Wee Witless, sorry Weasley, Welshman :E :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: An apology please. 2E0WOM

To anyone who may be interested in learning, the RSGB broadcasts a slow morse programme each week. Details can be found here.

Hey guys. My friends and I have gotten pretty comfortable with just about everything in the game. But morse code is always a struggle unless we get really lucky. I've taken it upon myself to learn morse code. I downloaded a morse code trainer app, which seems pretty legit.

Cool thing is, you can change the settings to speed up and slow down the WPM. Does anybody have an idea of what speed the morse code in the game would be? I'd like to train myself to that speed if possible.

Thanks!

Hi Spencerr

Back in the dim & distance past when I did my UK CAA CPL exams there was a practical aural morse test you had to pass which was based around 6 words per minute (WPM) which is beacon identification speed. They removed the reading an aldis lamp morse test a few years earlier.

You won't be able to do 6 wpm at the start so concentrate on getting the letters correct at a slow speed then gradually increase to whatever speed you like. Amateur radio hams used to operate at about 12 WPM but you have to admire the SOE agents from WWII who could reach 25-30 WPM under very trying conditions.

thank you for your response and suggestion

Start at the beginning, learn the first five letters A to E. learn it as “dits and dahs” (so A is dit dah, not just dot dash). Doesn’t take long to learn them, then practise decoding every car number plate you see in front of you, when you can do the first five then learn the next five, practise them and then practise all ten. Then learn the next five etc.
40 years ago before my flying career started I was taught morse to 25 words per minute by professionals, and that’s how we were taught it. As has been pointed out years ago in this thread you don’t need it for exams any more, but anyone who might ever fly IFR in a non EFIS aircraft with no autopilot should be able to aurally identify navaids whilst flying on instruments, and that’s a lot harder if you have to
look away from your instrument scan to read the dots and dashes on the chart.