The P&W engine “whale” noises are fantastic, but they happen every single time you increase thrust from 0% upwards.
I’ve flown on real flights with these engines before, and I don’t remember that happening every time the pilot increased thrust. It only happened right before takeoff or sometimes during flight.
Is this frequency actually correct?
This noise appears at 5%, but I agree with you: every time you accelerate a little, say to 6% or 8% just to get the plane rolling, you can hear it reverse, unless it's 'unreal'
Currently we've programmed the sound to play loudest during acceleration in a certain core rotation speed range (N2) which is slightly above idle. Because the idle thrust in the real world is often enough to taxi the pilots only use idle thrust until they takeoff. If you do the same in Aerofly the howl also should only play during takeoff. We may have to fine-tune it so that it doesn't play at the same rotation speed once enough air-flow is passing through the engines to avoid the sound during descent.
But the similar engines on the ERJ E2 family certainly produce the whale sound on approach as well, then they increase thrust from idle to approach thrust. So it's not totally unrealistic to have that for our A320 as well.
Currently we've programmed the sound to play loudest during acceleration in a certain core rotation speed range (N2) which is slightly above idle. Because the idle thrust in the real world is often enough to taxi the pilots only use idle thrust until they takeoff. If you do the same in Aerofly the howl also should only play during takeoff. We may have to fine-tune it so that it doesn't play at the same rotation speed once enough air-flow is passing through the engines to avoid the sound during descent.
But the similar engines on the ERJ E2 family certainly produce the whale sound on approach as well, then they increase thrust from idle to approach thrust. So it's not totally unrealistic to have that for our A320 as well.
Thanks, but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to happen on descent, so thats already accurate. I’ve stayed near a busy airport approach path and I can easily pick out when an A220 or A320neo is flying over because the whale noise happens near landing.
