I was flying the PMDG tonight, when I suddenly realized how dead the experience is, in terms of immersive ambient sounds.  Such as hearing boarding sounds, cabin crew announcements etc.

Are there any suggestions for an addon that will add just these?

What I mean by that is, I know some of these career addons contain some things like that, but I'm not in the slightest bit interested in things like A Pilots Life ie. a career addons, so don't realy want to pay for something where 95% of the paid features are things I wouldn't be using.

I'm just wanting simple immersion - hearing passengers boarding the plane, some basic flight attendent announcements, etc.  

Any suggestions? 

PS.  I already own FS Realistic with it's own (very limited) cabin sounds.  But I've retired that addon and don't use it any more. Looking for something else.

Edited February 18, 20242 yr by JYW

Self-Loading Cargo and PACX are two options.  GSX can add passenger sounds on boarding and deboarding.

19 minutes ago, Iadbound said:

Self-Loading Cargo and PACX are two options.  GSX can add passenger sounds on boarding and deboarding.

Thanks.  I wouldn't be going the GSX route, but I did a quick Google of "MSFS Passenger and crew sounds" and got lot's of results about PACX.     So I'm checking it out right now!

2 minutes ago, JYW said:

Thanks.  I wouldn't be going the GSX route, but I did a quick Google of "MSFS Passenger and crew sounds" and got lot's of results about PACX.     So I'm checking it out right now!

You should use Self-Loading Cargo, it's MUCH better.

4 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

You should use Self-Loading Cargo, it's MUCH better.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

PACX is good - just good. I remember reading that there will be no further development on it though. 

SLC is much more in-depth and can take some time to configure, but once you do it exceeds PACX by a fair margin.

There is a newer program called Passenger2 which I believe is career-based as well? Not sure as I have not used it. I also read that it integrates well with GSX.

LukeAirTool is freeware and may contain what you are seeking?  

I would say LukeAirTool for cabin crew announcements/actual recordings of such from various airlines. It has a pretty good catalogue of airlines to chose from as well. It also allows you to create your own if you want to go down that route.

Thanks folks.

I discovered and tried Luke Air Tool (free) and it is exactly what I was looking for!

Very impressive that it has dozens of different airline sound packs.... and again for free.

As I didn't want anything career-related, this little tool is just perfect.  I already created and integrated my own boarding music into it too!

Flew an Easyjet flight in the Fenix A320 and had full, authentic announcements (as well as good boarding/pax sounds).

Very pleased!

Thanks.

Edited February 19, 20242 yr by JYW

3 hours ago, verbal said:

PACX is good - just good. I remember reading that there will be no further development on it though. 

Just an FYI, PACX is still in development but TFDi has higher priority stuff at the moment —according to them anyway. 

34 minutes ago, JYW said:

Thanks folks.

I discovered and tried Luke Air Tool (free) and it is exactly what I was looking for!

Very impressive that it has dozens of different airline sound packs.... and again for free.

As I didn't want anything career-related, this little tool is just perfect.  I already created and integrated my own boarding music into it too!

Flew an Easyjet flight in the Fenix A320 and had full, authentic announcements (as well as good boarding/pax sounds).

Very pleased!

Thanks.

you've made it sound so good I'm tempted to have a crack at it myself haha

Edited February 19, 20242 yr by verbal

17 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

You should use Self-Loading Cargo, it's MUCH better.

Do it run in VR mode ?

A long time ago I downloaded some crew wav files.  PAX Boarding...pilot welcome...taxi....arm doors.....dim lights....beverages during climb out....turbulance....decent....welcome.... I play them on my windows player whenever I want to hear a certain item. They are really good.....real people.  I even edited a couple when the original wav indicated a city or time of day so make it generic

On 2/19/2024 at 4:46 PM, Messifan20 said:

Do it run in VR mode ?

 

On 2/18/2024 at 11:19 PM, JYW said:

Thanks, I'll check it out.

 

On 2/18/2024 at 11:14 PM, Fiorentoni said:

You should use Self-Loading Cargo, it's MUCH better.

SLC iws pretty nice... Yet it's not yet a ready program completely. It has some glitches and hangups, but from these alternatives I think it's the best. I might give a try for the Luke's Air Tool... Or is it only for MSFS?

 

Quick Question for those using SLC. Does anybody figure out how to use it alongside Lossless Scaling?