External sounds audible in cockpit with engine running?

SYN_Repent · #16 10-13-2011, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Snapper

I've never flown any of the aircraft featured in Cliffs of Dover, but I've flown a North American Harvard. It's a WW2-era aircraft and you cannot hear a thing over the engine sound other than the radio speaker in your helmet. Perhaps Merlins, DB601's, and Jumos, etc. are significantly quieter in the cockpit than P&W Wasp radial engines -- that I wouldn't know.

in this example YOU didnt hear a thing over the engine sound, but YOU didnt have 8 browning .303's to fire, or 6 .50 cals firing at you, or other high performance aircraft engines screaming past you.

View Poll Results: Shall external sounds be audible from inside the cockpit?
YES! It may be not realistic but I like to hear everything from outside.	18	24.32%
NO! Nothing except one's own engine and radio.	2	2.70%
NO! Only one's own engine, radio and one's own gun fire.	0	0%
No! only one's own engine, radio, own gun fire and hits from enemy fire.	52	70.27%
I don't care.	2	2.70%
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