I'm flying FSX Acceleration. My AI traffic are very quiet. Unless I have my sound sliders turned all the way up they appear to be silent. All my jets use the same generic (737?) sounds which are barely audible and make simple whine and swish sounds, nothing more. This even applies to default aircraft such as the F-18, which appears to have bespoke AI sounds. I've tried copying soundai folders and soundai.cfg to the directory for the aircraft I'm interested in, but it doesn't change anything. For instance, I have AI Vulcans and have copied the sounds from the IRIS Vulcan (renaming the folder and cfg files to add "ai") but it doesn't work. The same is true for AI Hunters and Dave Garwood's Hunter sounds (FGA9).Does anyone know where I'm going wrong, or know of a fix for generic, quiet AI sounds?I've seen some posts where the AI seems to be silent and people have fixed it by reinstalling FSX... which I really want to avoid!I'm also running Traffic X by Just Flight.Many thanks in advanceAndy

http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=audioenv <---I use this. At first I had some major buyer's remorse (it is expensive for what it does). But My Traffic X or UT2 in conjunction with Audio Environment is great.Also, make sure you have SOUND_LOD=0 and not "1" in your fsx.cfg.

I use alan constable traffic extreme for FSX.used for a couple of years now and is better than default.can be bought from simmarket.steve-0

Also, make sure you have SOUND_LOD=0 and not "1" in your fsx.cfg

This really seemed to do the trick, especially volume wise but also in terms of aircraft-specific sounds. Many thanks indeed!Are there methods (perhaps in the cfg or wav files) to increase the volumes (both relative and absolute) still further? For instance, my AI Vulcan now taxis with a nice sound and volume, but actually gets quieter when it throttles up for takeoff! I'd like to reverse this.Thanks againAndy

This really seemed to do the trick, especially volume wise but also in terms of aircraft-specific sounds. Many thanks indeed!Are there methods (perhaps in the cfg or wav files) to increase the volumes (both relative and absolute) still further? For instance, my AI Vulcan now taxis with a nice sound and volume, but actually gets quieter when it throttles up for takeoff! I'd like to reverse this.Thanks againAndy

You can edit the individual .wav files to be louder with Audacity or other sound editors.http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

You can gather sound packages for specific aircraft and put them in a directory using titles that identify the aircraft. For example, you might have a sound set for a B737-800 so the folder might be B738. You then point to that folder and its associated sound files using the soundai pointer in each of your B738 aircraft folders. You will end up with a folder - soundai - and a sound.cfg file pointing to your specific sound package. Don't forget to exchange the sound.cfg file in the sound package for a soundai.cfg file with the same *.wav files.Now, each AI aircraft can have specific sounds and not generic ones. I don't remember what the post title was but I placed instructions on how to do this somewhere in the forums.fb

Audio Environment for Airliners is a very good program.Beside that I also bought several TSS sounds and with Audacity I customized many aircraft so that they really sound like I feel they should.Planespotting is great now.