Why do we hear other aircraft from within our own?

[kilo2]

I turned both most the way down. But I listened to music the entire time I flew. I won't lie it did save me a few times though.

[Biggamer]

ill fess up in aces high 2 my wind sound was 0 and if it was an option in aces high 3 it would be 0 we dont have that option however engine sound we do in aces high 2 my engine sound was set to 20 and external engines was set to 100 and thats what i run in aces high 3 so yes i hear the enemy at 800-1000 out. ive always used these setting from day one i think i started in 2008 maybe even before.

[Chalenge]

Would only work if the game required everyone to use the same headphones or speakers.

Except they could be tied together, perhaps.

[ccvi]

I've heared planes "looking" for GVs toggling their engines off to listen for them instead of spotting them visually.

[Zoney]

ill fess up in aces high 2 my wind sound was 0 and if it was an option in aces high 3 it would be 0 we dont have that option however engine sound we do in aces high 2 my engine sound was set to 20 and external engines was set to 100 and thats what i run in aces high 3 so yes i hear the enemy at 800-1000 out. ive always used these setting from day one i think i started in 2008 maybe even before.

FYI, if you are relying on this for SA, you may be disappointed when I drop in from the Zoneysphere with my engine off.

I am very very sneaky.

I'm very very sneaky.

I apologize for this tactic to anyone who has a name that starts with "Z".

[lunatic1]

Oh, you could fill a book with the dumb stuff I do, Lunatic1.  To each his own though!

lol, me too-like uppin at a capped field

[oboe]

I've heared planes "looking" for GVs toggling their engines off to listen for them instead of spotting them visually.

Wasn't this tactic used in a movie once?  I thought I remembered Henry Fonda's character up in a Bird Dog in the fog, and they shut down the engine and could hear the German's tank columns below.  Battle of the Bulge maybe?

[Max]

Wasn't this tactic used in a movie once?  I thought I remembered Henry Fonda's character up in a Bird Dog in the fog, and they shut down the engine and could hear the German's tank columns below.  Battle of the Bulge maybe?

Yup, it was B of B. Great flick! Robert Shaw's character was a real meany!!

[Oldman731]

Wasn't this tactic used in a movie once?  I thought I remembered Henry Fonda's character up in a Bird Dog in the fog, and they shut down the engine and could hear the German's tank columns below.  Battle of the Bulge maybe?

Yup.  Obviously unwise in IMC, even if you don't have AA shooting at you.

- oldman

[oboe]

lol, me too-like uppin at a capped field

We never learn, do we?   Always that chance you can sneak away on the deck, down in the trees....and then "Blam, blam blam!" some nut in a Wirby hiding near the field saws my wing off...