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Old 09-15-2010, 07:57 AM
WTE_Galway WTE_Galway is offline
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Originally Posted by csThor View Post
Don't expect it (to put it mildly). DT doesn't have the expertise in this area and I doubt any of these "Soundpacks" do not contain samples that weren't taken from gawd-knows-where.
I cannot comment on the quality of the 4.09 sounds as they do not work on my system. However this argument is usually not about quality its about the type of sounds.

I agree that it is simply totally impossible for the makers of those/any sound packs to have had access to recordings from inside the cockpit of aircraft which in many cases have not been flyable for 40 years.

Even where they are flyable the sounds will be usually those of a restored warbird with a similar but usually not identical engine running at reduced boost for safety recorded from outside the aircraft.

Unfortunately these inaccurate soundpacks are exactly the type of sounds that the average person thinks sound "fantastic" in a flight sim. They expect the sort of outside sounds you hear in movies or when standing on the ground at an airshow watching a flypast. Historically correct sounds will not make these people happy.