sound radar is back ... naaaaaaah!

[Insuber]

The crazy sound radar ruins all of the sneak attacks... I suffered this issue several times in ATAG, approaching an enemy plane from 6 o'clock low, in the blind spot. They hear you from > 300 m.
it wasn't present before last patch iirc.

Devs do something !

[CaptainDoggles]

I'm not convinced this is a problem.

I normally throttle back when I get close anyways, but even when I don't I'm not experiencing an epidemic of sound-radar. You make it sound like it's completely impossible to sneak up on anyone when this is in fact not true.

[l3uLLDoZeR]

I fly with the canopy open in the hurricane. I think you should be able to hear to some extent. I have no idea how much I should be able to hear, do u fly around in open cockpit biplanes or something that you know what it sounds like?

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by l3uLLDoZeR

I fly with the canopy open in the hurricane. I think you should be able to hear to some extent. I have no idea how much I should be able to hear, do u fly around in open cockpit biplanes or something that you know what it sounds like?

Well, flying in a closed-cockpit Cessna is so loud that you need to wear headphones just to communicate.

That's a 175-hp turboprop. I imagine a World-war era 1000-hp+ fighter would be significantly louder.

WWII pilots have said in multiple interviews that you can't hear anything happening outside of your cockpit. Even with an open cockpit you're not going to hear anything because your engine appears to you, to be that much louder. The first clue that someone was firing at a pilot was when tracers were flying past their cockpit or rounds were impacting against their aircraft.

[reflected]

I agree, you shouldn't hear anything. Then again, I've never heard another aircraft from my cockpit in CloD. I don't think this problem exists.

[Winger]

Originally Posted by l3uLLDoZeR

I fly with the canopy open in the hurricane. I think you should be able to hear to some extent. I have no idea how much I should be able to hear, do u fly around in open cockpit biplanes or something that you know what it sounds like?

As long as it is possible to fly with open canopy without having serious performance hit by doing so its in my eyes to be considered as a cheat.

Fly with it open but if you do suffer from the energyloss it brings.

This needs to be adressed in my opinion. For both sides. Heck droping the 109s canopy doesnt even have ANY negative sideeffects. That shitty. However its one of the samaller issues i consider as "not so urgent to fix".

Winger

[ATAG_Septic]

Originally Posted by Winger

As long as it is possible to fly with open canopy without having serious performance hit by doing so its in my eyes to be considered as a cheat.

Fly with it open but if you do suffer from the energyloss it brings.

This needs to be adressed in my opinion. For both sides. Heck droping the 109s canopy doesnt even have ANY negative sideeffects. That shitty. However its one of the samaller issues i consider as "not so urgent to fix".

Winger

I agree Winger. I can't bring myself to fly with the canopy open, it's just so unrealistic and the wind noise is a nuisance. I will open it if I fear I may need to bail for instance.

[EZ1]

I can hear other planes all around me at close range. I could hear them in 46 also. It saved my butt many times. It does seem a bit unrealistic considering how much noise those old engines produced.

[Hellbender]

I heard several times on ATAG TS 3 that people are using the Sound Radar constantly when they shouted, "I hear a 109 behind me".

For the moment, we have to live with that problem, but for the next patch, I´m confident that the devs are fixing that issue.