Seen this before-------
Don't expect any input from HTC in this thread unless it gets ugly & someone makes them respond.
From my experience, HiTech somehow feels that the squelch command is sufficient & that enabling a permanant squelch command would send the wrong message to potential new players. I myself never understood the logic behind this decision. Regretfully it is not my decision to make, or it would have been implemented long ago.
I made a similar thread long ago askin for P-squelch in MA, even though VERY MANY people agreed & wanted the feature added, the post was ignored by staff, then it was moved to a less popular forum. So they took the time to move it because it was so popular & not what they wanted to see. But they couldnt take the time to offer any explaination at all.
Naturally this made me angry & I took the wrong measures, got banned from game & boards for a month & almost for good. After that I realized- - - - Its HTCs game, every aspect of it. If they don't want to respond, they wont. If you dont like it- deal with it, if you dont wanna deal- quit. They have advertisement in place to pull in 10 people to replace ya.
Now of course I still pay & I still play, so I aparently I think its worth it. For the record I fly about 90% of my flight time with CH1 squelched. I usually squelch 2-3 countrymen every time I fly.
A_Clown