Jim Wilson wrote: > Olivier Grisel said: > > Furthermore, I can't hear the landing gear sound for > > the 747-yasim > > The gear sound is working now in my copy (can't remember if cvs is > working or not). For the most part it gets drowned out by the sound > of the engines. Not sure if on the "real thing" it can be heard > from the cockpit or not.
I doubt it. I don't fly in jumbo jets very often, but even in smaller jetliners you can't hear the tires squeal at landing. What you do hear is a low frequence "bump" as the gear compress. Sometimes there's a creaking sound as the passengers seats shift around with the force. If the touchdown is hard (not dangerously hard -- just a good firm "no flare" landing), this sounds more like a mild "bang". But not a squeal, anyway. :) Even in the lightplanes I've been in, you can't hear the squeal from the cockpit over the noise of the engine. Is it possible that the tire squeal is one of those cultural things* that we're all supposed to expect, even though it doesn't really happen? * Like the "hoo hoo HAH HAH HAH!" monkey sound used in movies, which is really a bird of some sort. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
