External engine sounds are no longer heard when your engine is running.

[ImADot]

I wish HTC would put an Arena Message up for when people hopped in to the MA's they'd know right away of the issue.  If I had $1 for everytime I've explained that since the new version I would have paid for a years worth of AH subscription. 

You mean spoonfeed people that don't bother to read the readme file that accompanies EVERY patch? Sorry, I'd rather not have to click "Ok" to close the popup window that tells people what they should already know.

[katanaso]

It does if you don't know how to fly it. 

<---- not good in a pony, but seen some stuff a few times that made him say "wow."

I know, that's why I made the simple, generic reply.   I think it's one of the most versatile planes in the game, but a lot of people think it's a one trick .... I can't say it.   

[mthrockmor]

From pilots that actually have flown these, yes that is true. The engine in front of you is so loud you can't hear anything else. Speed isn't a factor. You're sitting behind a 2000hp behemoth in most cases.

Try sitting in your car and revving the engine like you're going to drag race, peg the RPM... Now try to hear anything else BUT that. I think that may be a good analogy.

Good example, makes sense. Stall fighting with that K4 was creepy quiet. I don't like it though I will adjust.

Boo

PS So now that I have some knowledge base, which of the custom sound packs is the most accurate. I think I am using USRangers.

[Krusty]

Stall fighting with that K4 was creepy quiet.

Well, turn up the engine sounds! I never really understood why to turn them down. It's really a major part of my immersion to have proper sounds, so I turned it down a bit to better accommodate vox and to hear some damage sounds, but I never dropped below 75% or so.

[captain1ma]

or you could just report it in the aces high bug reports forum.

[colmbo]

If that is accurate then there it is. I've never ridden in one of these high performance birds in real life so don't know though find it hard to believe we couldn't hear them. I will trust what others say but wonder...

I'd have to guess that the only time you'd hear the engine of another airplane would be at the moment of collision with it.

We couldn't hear the B-24 in this photo...even when we got in within about 10 feet of the tail.

[Raphael]

What game was that?

Flight dynamics seemed OK, but didn't see reference to what it was.

it is sturmovik 1946, the very first video I mean.

[Raphael]

that is a great online server btw

[Krusty]

Edit: never mind I misunderstood.

[PFactorDave]

I'd have to guess that the only time you'd hear the engine of another airplane would be at the moment of collision with it.

We couldn't hear the B-24 in this photo...even when we got in within about 10 feet of the tail.

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Exactly.

I've been on the tarmac in a 152 with another 152 so close that our wingtips were only a few feet apart, couldn't hear the other plane at all.

[Krusty]

That's why many WW2 pilots suffered major mid-range hearing loss in later years.

[Wiley]

Gotta admit I'm going to miss the feedback it gave, but it wasn't right.  I'm glad it's gone.

Wiley.

[lulu]

"This change was to stop people from making their engine noise silent so they could hear other's engines."

From a certain point of view i agree with you Karnack, but i think that those people are shooten doen more
and no less. Because, it's really important to hear your engine. I had found a very good compromise.
I could hear enemy engine if and only if i was very very careful at they. In a furball for example it was quite unusefull, too much sounds from any directions.

But if i flew alone, i was able, if careull, to hear a con at 800 yrds back. With few chances if it was yet on my six o'clock.

These conditions are not a problem. If so why not disabling 'linda blair' view?

I still think that this think of sound it's exaggerated for planes.  

what among a b17 storm? No sounds?

hmm ... !?

   

[PFactorDave]

if careull, to hear a con at 800 yrds back. With few chances if it was yet on my six o'clock.

Do you understand how far away 800 yards actually is?  It's nearly half a mile.   

[lulu]

TY for replies.

From your answer, It seems quite impossible to hear another engine in real life - may be 2 or more ...  

I liked this feature. It made the game less monotonous for me.
It gave an old film fashion character to this game ... brain is not all in life after all we also have a soul.