ATAG_Ezzie
Aug-07-2016, 06:51
Just flew a mission and about halfway to England I fat fingered my canopy in the -110 and it opened. Once opened the only way to close the top part is to land (as far as I know). Rather than do that I decided to continue and to get rid of the annoying noise I turned the sound to 0 on the volume mixer.
'She'll Be right' I thought, I've got the dials to look at and it should be fine. Well it wasn't and I found it very disconcerting not to have the noise cues - mainly the engine noise and air rush noise when going faster - and found I couldn't do what I normally do. I almost exceeded Vne a couple of times in dives without realising when I was diving on enemy and managing rpms was hard without the rpm sound. The extra concentration required made me screw up a couple of potential attacks.
I found it off putting so much so I landed. If you had asked me beforehand about how important the sound cues are I would have been indifferent. But not now.
Give it to (ie try flying an online combat sortie) with no noise and see what you think. Maybe it's just me ..?
Ezzie
'She'll Be right' I thought, I've got the dials to look at and it should be fine. Well it wasn't and I found it very disconcerting not to have the noise cues - mainly the engine noise and air rush noise when going faster - and found I couldn't do what I normally do. I almost exceeded Vne a couple of times in dives without realising when I was diving on enemy and managing rpms was hard without the rpm sound. The extra concentration required made me screw up a couple of potential attacks.
I found it off putting so much so I landed. If you had asked me beforehand about how important the sound cues are I would have been indifferent. But not now.
Give it to (ie try flying an online combat sortie) with no noise and see what you think. Maybe it's just me ..?
Ezzie