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On May 19, 12:56*am, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
Fortunately, MSFS handles engine sounds in a fairly consistent and predictable way. Yep, consistently unrealistic, with no prop noise at all. The sound quality in MSFS is remarkably good -- in SOME of the aircraft, and with the proper equipment. For example, our sim set-up at the hotel has a full surround-sound system with sub-woofer. *When you wind up the Merlin in the P-51, it sings. *When you pull it back to idle, you can hear wind noise. *When you kill the engine, you can hear the prop windmilling. And the rumble of the big radial engines in the Grumman Goose is wonderfully done. An indication of the importance of sound in the sim -- it's MUCH harder to fly the sim with the sound turned off. *You don't realize how often you use aural cues in flight until they're not there. *(Which, BTW, makes me really admire the deaf pilots of the world. *Back before the troll wars reduced this group, there used to be a regular poster here named Henry Kisor who belonged to the deaf pilot's association, and I was always impressed that he was able to fly so well without aural cues. *But I digress...) Of course, if you're relying on your desktop computer's speaker, you're absolutely correct -- the sounds are not there. *But the sim software *is* creating the proper sounds, mostly, but it does require a good quality system to hear it. -- Nope, I detect there is no change in prop sound when you load it up and my computer does have a sound card. Maybe you are using one of Mx's famous add ons, but can you hear the prop disk meet off axis air?. Cheers |
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