Update · Flying & Procedures
Helicopter tour: only the guide speaks
Radio traffic is silent on the harbour tour. The calls still show as text, and the guide is the only voice.
On the Hong Kong harbour helicopter scenic tour, the guide is now the only voice you hear. Radio traffic is no longer spoken.
What changed
- The Approach and Tower calls to the jets landing at Kai Tak are silent on the tour. No voices and no squelch clicks.
- With Radio on, the calls still show as text on the left of the screen, so you can follow the traffic across the bay.
- The guide's commentary is no longer held up or cut off by radio calls.
- The rotor and turbine sound and the weather stay as they were.
What did not change
- In Plane Spotter and every flying mode, the radio is spoken as before.
- The autopilot still lands in every weather preset, and flying with no input still ends in a crash.
喺香港維港直升機觀光之旅入面，而家你只會聽到導賞員把聲。無線電通話唔會再讀出嚟。
有咩改變
- 觀光期間，進近管制同塔台同降落啟德客機之間嘅通話全部靜音，冇人聲，亦冇靜噪咔聲。
- 開咗 Radio 嘅話，通話仍然會以文字喺畫面左邊顯示，你照樣可以睇住九龍灣對面嘅航機動態。
- 導賞員講解唔會再被無線電通話拖慢或者打斷。
- 旋翼同渦輪聲，同天氣聲效，維持不變。
冇改變嘅地方
- 喺 Plane Spotter 同所有飛行模式，無線電照舊會讀出。
- 自動駕駛喺所有天氣預設下都照樣降落，完全唔操作照樣會墜毀。
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