F-16 by SC Design

Any tips on reducing the popping and crackling sounds when flying on full ABs in external view?

No sorry I donā€™t hear that

Tried a reinstall of the F16 and restart the sim?

Oh, okay. Worth a shot I suppose. Youā€™re not getting it? Are you on PC?

Iā€™m on Xbox series x also

There is a switch at the back left FLCS FBW disable it

Huh?! Iā€™ve no idea what that means! Iā€™m fairly new to the sim and not at all familiar with the abbreviations.

So youā€™re saying I need to toggle something off to make the popping and crackling noise go away with full ABs on?

@CurleeToes

Edit: Oh WOW! Thank you so, so much for this! Itā€™s pulling Gs like crazy nowā€¦ No slowdowns. Finally feels like Iā€™m piloting a Falcon. Thereā€™s two toggles here: FBW and FBW ELAC. Iā€™ve switched them both off. Man, it feels incredibleā€¦ Thanks to you.

I think the Falcon is going to be my absolute favourite jet for a while.

Earlier today, I hit over 1,100 knots TAS on it with the mach reading hitting almost 2.0ā€¦ ah, pure bliss.

I canā€™t help but wonder: did you not notice any popping or crackling sounds when you installed this jet for the first time, using full ABs in chase/external cam?
What kind of sound setup are you using? Spatial audio on or off? Apart from that, no audio settings in game.

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I use stereo uncompressed on Xbox audio settings and use steelseries arctis pro wireless 7.1 headphones. I do hear a little crackle or distortion with afterburners using the external camera but I think it is intentional being so loud like it would be in real life I guess

Yep, definitely was led to believe the same that itā€™s just how theyā€™ve recorded the sound. The distortion, popping and crackling with ABs on can get a bit annoying. Thatā€™s all. No big deal. Iā€™ll live with it :sweat_smile:.

I tried the delete, reinstall and relaunch sim tip you recommendedā€¦ Didnā€™t make an iota of difference. Iā€™ve turned on rolling cache, set it to 64gigs and turned off spatial sound. Maybe itā€™s a bit better, maybeā€¦ But not by much.

Say, does the Super Hornet have a similar setting for pitch and roll, allowing me to stay agile and pull high Gs at high speeds?

Also, would appreciate it if anyone can figure out how to dump empty fuel tanks under the wings mid-flight.

Maybe thereā€™s a PDF or something I can download which explains each aircraftā€™s functions in detailā€¦

64gb sounds high for the rolling cache Asobo recommends 16-32gb. No nothing like that on the FA18 unfortunately. For the external fuel tanks just bring up the fuel tab on the toolbar whilst in flight and set fuel to 0 on the external tank you donā€™t want

Oh? Thatā€™s awesome but would have been cool to be able to jettison them and watch them fall from altitude, as opposed to just magically vanishing into thin air. Lol

Rolling cache: I thought the higher it is, the less the game stutters and the less melted blobs of wastelands you see when flying up close :grin:

Not sure if I can post pdfā€™s here, but @SpeedDemon996 here is a link to the JustFlight website, where SC Designs has their manual posted for download.
Click the ā€œhereā€ hyperlink about halfway down the page.

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The F/A-18 has a G override as well but itā€™s not as agile as the F-16.

Many thanks for this!!! :+1:t2:

F15 manual downloaded too :slightly_smiling_face:

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How do you activate the G -override on SX? By pressing the Y (autopilot) button? Thatā€™s what Iā€™m doing - when hit at just the right time, your pilot can easily surpass 10 Gs, but itā€™s not always on command - only during certain maneuvers.

Is that it?

Oh, excellent! Many thanks for this. Itā€™s going to be a busy weekend :grinning:

Edit: Hmm, apparently, youā€™ve to pay for it. So, $33.99 for the jet and another $34.99 for the manual? :rofl:

You know, now that I think about it, when the SH is going supersonic, you pan the camera around and as it pans back from silence to the sonic boom, you hear a crackling, popping and slightly distorted sound in the ABs too. But itā€™s only momentarily during the ā€˜boomā€™ effect and not constant like it is with the F-16 - so itā€™s probably something everyone gets, particularly if they are playing on a reasonably powerful amp and speaker setup.

I suppose if the devs ever read this, they might adjust the dynamic frequency range for the AB effects, thatā€™s the only thing I can think of - in other games, the AB sounds are so clean yet loud and intimidating. Itā€™s all in the dynamic frequency range and how devs utilise it.

I donā€™t know how to do that on the XboX, on the PC there is an option I believe. The human body can sustain 10G for short periods, doesnā€™t mean the aircraft is able to pull that many Gs without stalling depending on your speed in relation to corner speed.

The last couple of big Formula One crashes were a lot higher peak recorded G!

Roman Grosjean (Bahrain) = 67g
Max Verstappen (Silverstone) = 51g

Well yeah but then we are talking about microseconds :joy:

Yea, a few of them haha. I wouldnā€™t fancy it. Especially if I was on fire moments later!

@SpeedDemon996 So you cannot download the manual from that link? You should not have to buy anything, nor even log in to the website to download the manual.