[Fafnir_6]

Hello,

El Aurens, you are absolutely correct about the ambient noise levels in the cockpit. I stand by my earlier assertion that stock/modded interior sounds are all just best guesses by their respective makers (I'll amend that now to say that they are adjusted to save our hearing/speakers as well). If the modded sounds interior sounds don't bear any resenblance to the sound in the video, what is to stop the sound maker from dropping the gain of the sound in the video (or perhaps make a new recording with a very low-gain microphone/recording system since B-25s are still flying) and adjusting his/her in game interior sound for a given plane to match the recorded sound to the best of his/her ability. Surely this would be the closest we could get to proper interior sounds. There are many warbirds still flying that we could potentially get a low gain recording system in for a flight. I'll look into what recording system would be best for this (this need not be prohibitively expensive, I think).

As for exterior sounds, the mods have it right. I have heard Spitfires fly in RL and the stock sounds bare no resemblance to the real thing. The same goes for P-51s, Bf109s and other still flyable warbirds.

If replacing the interior sounds is untenable (I don't think it is when you have youtube cockpit vids and if we could make special recordings) then perhaps just the exterior sounds could be replaced since these are much easier to record and get very accurate.

@robtek: While you are correct that you shouldn't be able hear anything other than your own engine/guns in cockpit, it is still worthwhile to overhaul the exterior sounds for offliners such as myself who like to watch other planes fly around/fight during a long flight.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6