AUDIO: Fighter pilots to get cockpit instructions from female voice 'because it relaxes them more' (but they've already nicknamed her Nagging Nora)

 

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A Joanna Lumley-sounding voice is giving danger warnings to Typhoon pilots

AUDIO:   Typhoon fighter pilots hear woman's voice in BAE jets

  
Nagging women drive men crazy, but in a fighter pilot’s cockpit she is the one he’ll sit up and listen to. 

In extreme and stressful flying conditions, fighter pilots are more likely to take notice of a female voice a study has found.

Plane makers BAE are letting loose a Joanna Lumley-type voice to give recorded warnings to fighter pilots in their state of the art Typhoon jets when things get heated.

The voice, which gets sterner and louder the longer she is ignored, has already been nicknamed ‘nagging Nora’.

Andrea Kay, from BAE, said: ‘We have conducted studies to find out what pilots who are flying under both stressful physical and mental conditions are more receptive to.’

It turns out that, particularly in combat situations, pilots were able to pick out the female voice amid the flurry of radio chatter in stressful situations.

‘If you don’t listen, she gets harsher and louder in both tone and volume,’ she said.

The male voice has been relegated to giving straightforward information like altitude and location.

‘There is as much psychology in the cockpit as there are clever systems. A voice warning and recognition system is one way of helping the pilots,’ Ms Kay said.

‘The female voice gets the most important messages across in the most effective way.’

The female warning system has taken years to develop and in the test stages a Lancashire voice was used.

She said: ‘It’s about making sure it’s intuitive and we are delivering the best information to them in the most effective way. It’s about making the aircraft the best that it can be’.

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AUDIO: Sat Nag! Typhoon fighter pilots hear woman's voice in BAE jets

Pilots flying in one of BAE’s state-of-the-art Typhoon jets are being told what to do by a stern-sounding woman. 

 Studies have shown that pilots take more notice of the female voice under extreme conditions – and these findings have been used by BAE. 

It is the first time the company, which has bases in Samlesbury and Warton, have used a female voice – which has been nicknamed ‘nagging Nora’ – to deliver recorded warnings to pilots. 

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