Because they can?

It's still blatantly wrong that open canopies allow to hear external sounds and come at no drag panalty. Equally wrong is that external sounds can be heared with closed canopies as well.

Are there any other aircraft for which external sounds can be heard?

EDIT: one also hears the 109 whizzle inside the 109 cockpit ...

Prior to the latest Beta Sonar Sound with canopy closed no longer ocurred.
After this Beta Sonar Sound though no where near as bad as previously is back even with canopy closed.

I think previously the Canopy Open/Close was a temporary fix to kill Sonar Sound. Agree with Stormcrow it shouldnt be a criteria to determine Sonar Sound ON/OFF.

So Yes Sonar Sound is back, but not as dramatic as iy once was .... but shouldn't be there at all !

It's only the first part of the sentence.

The second part is: "And they don't care about realism".

Simulator this, simulator that... at last for most the only important thing is to take down the enemy...

If it could be done in the 109 too I'm quite sure there will be many guys doing the same: it's because issues like these that I like to fly within a limited community.

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I haven't played in a while, but I can honestly say in 100+ hrs of flying on ATAG servers across the many patches, and being shot down almost every flight, I never heard this sound radar thing. Roughly half the time the first indication that I had an enemy on my 6 was a black screen pilot killed.

The other half I spotted them because I had learned to fly whilst looking backwards 90% of the time and constantly changing course.

Thing is, in my experience, flying with the canopy open or jettisoned makes you more vunerable to being pilot killed. ;)

I wouldn't know, it's not something I do, same as using flaps at high speed.

Seems like 50% of the spit pilots I come across are (ab)using the sound radar.

Quite frustrating to spend 15 minutes stalking someone and setting up a bounce, only to have them magically detect you in their blind spot.

Sound radar most definately exists with canopy open, which I always do coz I can see better. I only fly red, just in case anyone doesn't know.

Last night I would've been blown out of the sky by Little_D were it not for hearing him coming. I checked my 6 and there he was, easily 100yds away.

I avoided his first pass with a steep turn and we swung around for a couple of more or less head on passes, and on the third pass he stopped my engine. I got a shot off at him even with a dead engine but missed, then dived down to Hawkinge for an emergency landing.

I survived, but really I shouldn't have. ;)