Unlike any other aircraft I have, the J41 is a little to loud. Can't hear ATC or my co-pilot when I'm using FS2Crew hardly. Is there a setting besides FSX where the engine sounds can be reduced a bit, just enough to hear ATC and my crew talk to me?

That's actually just realistic. While I've never flown in a Jetstream, I used to work at an FBO that was frequented by a Cessna 441 (same engines) and boy are they loud.. Under Sounds there should be a slider for engines, that should help you.

Yeah, I know about the engines sound slider, but that would affect all other aircrafts sounds which doesn't have this problem. I know that it's natural that these engines are loud, but when you are inside the cockpit and can't hardly make out what ATC or you crew is telling you, that's a bit to loud.

The same problem here with several aircraft. My solution was to buy an inexpensive USB soundcard (amazon has it for about $25 --PPA International 1455 USB 6 Channel External Sound with VoIP Support )and use it for coms and leave all other sounds on the speakers. Works perfectly. Frankly, I was surprised at the sound quility of that $25 unit.

At first, I was thinking "you're out of your mind, my FS2Crew is perfect," but then I remembered I have a setup that likely different from yours.Just as Neal mentioned, a USB headset (or USB soundcard) will do the trick. It's well worth it without sacrificing the true quality of the engine sound.

I use a headset for FS2Crew as well, but I turned the engine down. It isn't exactly a huge headache to go into the settings menue and raise or lower the engine sound. You don't even have to exit the sim to do it. Alternatively, turn your FS2Crew sounds way up and turn the overall sounds down (you know the windows volume control). That seems to work for me as well.

Unlike any other aircraft I have, the J41 is a little to loud. Can't hear ATC or my co-pilot when I'm using FS2Crew hardly. Is there a setting besides FSX where the engine sounds can be reduced a bit, just enough to hear ATC and my crew talk to me?

I rode on a JS31 a few years ago and it was the loudest aircraft I've ever rode on -- My girlfriend was inaudible next to me.

Edited February 17, 201214 yr by ZachLW

This really is an airplane which benefits from a second audio device/set of USB headphones or something along those lines. Makes ATC and other things audible, while retaining the realism of noisy Garretts.Only problem is those neighbours....

This really is an airplane which benefits from a second audio device/set of USB headphones or something along those lines. Makes ATC and other things audible, while retaining the realism of noisy Garretts.Only problem is those neighbours....

Exactly....and you should've heard some of the complaints around here when ACA was around.I still don't get that 'problem' though. Airport built in the middle of nowhere in the late 50s. People put their houses 5 miles north of the airport (knowing full well it was there), and then start complaining. Really? C'mon now...

Exactly....and you should've heard some of the complaints around here when ACA was around.I still don't get that 'problem' though. Airport built in the middle of nowhere in the late 50s. People put their houses 5 miles north of the airport (knowing full well it was there), and then start complaining. Really? C'mon now...

+1Never understood people who complain about airport noise when in most situations, the airport was there LONG before any houses were!If you dont like the noise, buy a house somewhere else and not one near an airport!!!!

Edited February 17, 201214 yr by GHarrall

+1Never understood people who complain about airport noise when in most situations, the airport was there LONG before any houses were!If you dont like the noise, buy a house somewhere else and not one near an airport!!!!

That is not always the case. There has been tons of airports built in new communities where residence been around long before the airport were built. Were I live there is a small airport they are trying to convert it into a national airport where heavies will be allowed to land, and the town is fighting the city on it.

That is not always the case. There has been tons of airports built in new communities where residence been around long before the airport were built. Were I live there is a small airport they are trying to convert it into a national airport where heavies will be allowed to land, and the town is fighting the city on it.

Thats why I said in 'most situations'I take your case in point, but an airport is an airport. You would have to be pretty daft to not consider at some point the usage of that airport may change when you buy said house. Its a risk full stop.At Ottawa, the amount of houses that have sprung up around CYOW is incredible. I dont know if anyone has / is complaining, but I would bet there are at least some.I have no sympathy for anyone who buys a house near an established, major airport and then complains about noise!

Thats why I said in 'most situations'I take your case in point, but an airport is an airport. You would have to be pretty daft to not consider at some point the usage of that airport may change when you buy said house. Its a risk full stop.At Ottawa, the amount of houses that have sprung up around CYOW is incredible. I dont know if anyone has / is complaining, but I would bet there are at least some.I have no sympathy for anyone who buys a house near an established, major airport and then complains about noise!

Exactly. If it wasn't a thought when you were looking to move into your new residence, tough cookies.Two weeks ago we had a dummy walk into the flight school complaining about the local UH-60s from the National Guard on field. Not only are the UH-60s not "our" (the flight school's) problem, it gets worse; I asked him how long he had lived in the nearby neighborhood. He literally looked me right in the eyes and said "2 weeks". I was dumb founded that not only did he not expect noise being so close to an often busy KCLT reliever airport, but had only settled in for 2 weeks and heard the noise once at 4PM. He had made complaint calls to local government, the FBO, and our flight school 8 times in those 2 weeks... People are crazy. To give an idea, he lives in a neighborhood on Airport Road 1 mile away to the west of the runway... What. a. tool.

To give an idea, he lives in a neighborhood on Airport Road 1 mile away to the west of the runway... What. a. tool.

Yeah, take a look at Palomar Airport Road (CA). The amount of complaints they get is insane, and some claim they "didn't know."JYO (where I fly out of) had houses built less than a mile away from the runway. Airport's been there since '40-something, I think, and these houses sprung up in the late 2000s. Complaints. They had further plans to put houses as close as 1300' (just over a quarter mile), but that's when the AOPA (among others) stepped in and told the town planner how incredibly stupid the idea was (not to mention how stupid the initial move was, but it's too late now).You can still see it on Google Maps/Earth. It'll show some of them as close as 1750', as well as some roughed in roads and dirt (where the foundations would have gone, if it wasn't stopped) just north of the field.

It's one thing to build there. It's another to move in or build there and then complain!