No results in searching the forum, so it must be something I do wrong.On touchdown I don't hear any sqwueeking sounds coming from the tires. Is this normal? I have the touchdown wave files in my 737-700 sound folder. Also, I don't hear the overspeed warning sound. All other sounds play well (as far as I can judge). The sliders in FS are set correctly (I can hear all the sounds in the default aircraft).Any ideas?

Come to think of it I can't remember screeching on any of them...I do get overspeed warnings though.

Thanks Ryan,I have read in this forum the overspeed sounds are very soft. Perhaps this issue is solved in the 800/900 upgrade?Anyone else getting tire screetching?

On real planes, you don't hear a noticable screetching, just a thud and everything is rattling. I doubt you can ever hear it in the cockpit since the main wheels are in the back.The PMDG landing sound is right compared to real planes.

That's true, BUT why do we have these sounds in the sound folder?I can't hear them from spot view neither...???Not that important, just wondering...;-)

I found that landing in the NG is difficult because the sound config seems somewhat strange compared to other planes in FS.It's just my opinion and maybe the way the plane comes is correct for "reality", but... I don't get the audio cues I need.When I start a flight on the ramp, the only way for me to tell the engines are running is to turn the HiFi volume up or watch the guages. I can barely here the engines over the fans and other cockpit noise.There is almost no shake, bump and rattle over the asphalt taxiways and none on takeoff, although I can just hear the engines when I start the take off roll.It's when I come to approach and landing that the audio levels get to be an annoyance. On finals with a quiet engine noise and general cockpit noise all is well, then some damned American starts shouting at me and I nearly jump out of my seat, "ONE THOUSAND!!!" I mean, does every soul on the plane need to hear it? I know americans are said by the europeans to be loud, but that takes the biscuit!I have to reach for the volume to turn it down!Compare this to Concorde, where the engines are "loud" and at 2,500 you have a nice, soft english voice say, "Radar altimiters are both active", "2,000", "1,000", "500", "100 above", "Decide", (insert quiet by firm beepers) "100", "50", "30", "15". Gentle, it doesn't make you leap out of your seat and hit the panic button! If you are high on the GS, then you get "Pull up!" shouted at you, when you can see the damn runway and you're only half a dot high, at 1200fpm descent. I swear, if that loud mouth was really sitting beside me in a plane I would smack him one. "Shut the **** up you loud ****er I'm trying to land a damn plane FFS!"When you actually touch tarmac, even heavy there is no bump or at most a very muted one, and if I passed my physics, then you would hear the bump in the whole plane as it reverberates through the chassis, a plane is a hollow box after all.The only way to be sure you are down is to look at the instruments, see if the spoilers have fired, if you listen very carefully you can hear the downward ramp of pitch in the rolling noise, but, unless the 737/700 has seriously effective sound proofing, from being passenger on quite a few MD84 and BAe146 flights, when you hit tarmac doing 140kts the noise is disconcertingly loud, the plane rattles and shakes, light flicker, people look scared, and it only gets worse as the nose wheel comes down and the brakes kick in, especially when the "WRRRRR! CLACK! WRRRRRR! Psssssssss, greeeuurrrrr CLUNK" noises start when the airbrkes, spoilers, antiskids and so on start working. Shame you can't get the feeling in your butt when a wheel locks and the world twists 10 degrees and back again, in the wet either, that's my favourite, gets the blood flowing that one.Does anyone have a better sound.cfg and roll/rattle noise for the NG?

I have no problems hearing sounds with the NG, make sure you set the sound quality to "high", and if you have a soundblaster card on XP, the more recent drivers.I also believe you can adjust the volume for various components via the PMDG menu.On the subject of screetching tires, I use the new ultra-quiet Michelins on my NGs (I used to do cartwheels with my old Firestones, possibly due to pilot error, not sure :)), so no, I don't hear screetching from the cockpit, but I admit I can't remember if you hear them from the spot view when you land (you should, regardless of the cockpit panel volume settings).Then again, if you think the NG cabin is noisy, you should try the CRJ. At least, the A/C in the NG doesn't cover the sound of the engines or wind noise, if only someone would put some WD40 on the trim mechanism - scares me to death everytime I use that thing...Cheers,

I also don't have any big problems with the PMDG sounds. Though, must say, those ONE THOUSAND callouts, so loud they are, are really annoying. So I manually edited them and lowered the volume. Not a big and certainly not a hard work.Problem is following: most of people don't keep the sounds of engines in the FS menu on 100%. Mostly it's on something like 50% or so. If you put all your sounds to 100 (max), then these callouts won't be too loud.

Okay, here's my sound config from fs9.cfg.[sOUND]SOUND=1SOUND_FADER1=0.200000SOUND_FADER2=0.100000SOUND_FADER3=0.300000SOUND_FADER4=0.800000SOUND_FADER5=0.500000SOUND_FADER6=1.000000SOUND_QUALITY=2What would be the "ultimate" settings for flying the PMDG 737?I am curious and thanks!

At least on the 737 flights I have made in real life, what you hear is normally a bump, bump, bump, most of the time gentle, similar to a firm but safe landing in a Skyhawk. What suprised me about riding in an airliner vs the light planes I fly is the ride in an airliner across the ramps and taxiways is so much rougher. Last flight into KALB at midnight the pilot had done the usual announcements and the flight attendents did their stuff. A minute or two later the lady next to me asked if we were on the ground yet. I tried to gently inform her that we were still a couple of thousand feet in the air. Going into Las Vegas in late afternoon can be a bit of a trip as the thermals from the desert and the winds over the mts can make it a wild ride on final. The person on the aisle seat asked me if it was always this rough on landing. I resisted the urge to say "Heck no, it can get much worse that this!" Only times I ever hear the tires chirp is when I am flying in GA planes and its a greaser.