No incoming ATC comm sound - A400M

When I request taxi or use atc comm, I hear a voice speaking my outgoing communication.
But the incoming communication makes no sound on my comms. It is visually shown, but no sound.

Didn’t use to be like this. But has been now for couple of days.

I checked in game audio, online and language options. Coulden’t find a fix. Windows sound settings, going to volume mixer > under apps > it shows 3 MSFS apps, one is stuck at 1% volume, and cannot be changed. The others are at 100% and can be adjusted.

Every other sound in the game and outside of the game works fine.

Which aircraft are you having an issue with ?, you should have a volume knob for communications, maybe it is off.

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oh thank you so much, I completely forgot that the atc is linked to the aircraft haha.
It’s the a400m
I skipped the audio checklist, sry my bad. :sweat_smile:

Have you been able to find the volume knob or settings in that plane ?, I have no idea where it is. Is that fixed then ?

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oh, sorry, I coulden’t find it. I mean, I don’t know how it works.

I’ll try start in air and see if the actual instruments are related to the issue at all.

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What you can do is to try with another aircraft like the C152 o C172 to check if you can hear ATC, I guess by default their radio is set to ON.

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Thanks, I did try another aircraft and it works fine on other aircraft.

But even starting the A400M in mid flight, doesn’t seem to fix the issue either.
Maybe A400M has no sound at all, or I just don’t know how to enable it.

I thought maybe it was an irs alignment issue or something like that. So I did an airport to airport flight in Free Flight. And loaded it to the EFB or something. Still no incoming sound. only my outgoing sound on comms. For the A400M atleast. The other crafts seem to work fine.

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I have added A400 to the title, hopefully an user with knowledge on that aircraft will be able to assist.

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Thanks @DementedCorn327
There is indeed a volume knob, like you said, and I found where it is.
:green_heart:It is above the left feet rudder pedal in normal cockpit view.

When in normal cockpit view, looking at the left rudder pedal, where the left feet is suppose to be, right above it is a whole series of green lit volume knobs.

On the top left, is the green lit V/U 1 button, which is the channel that is enabled by default. And right under it, is the volume knob at 0% volume, and also muted. So gotta press it to unmute it, and then also turn the volume up. And then it works.




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Summary

The V/U 1 is basically shown as Comm 1 on the atc interface. The cockpit instrument for radio settings is two instruments above the right feet rudder pedal, and then 1 instrument to the right. There are the V/U 1, V/U 2 and V/U 3 and their radio frequencies. Which can be set by pressing CLR > 6 number frequency > press green triangle above or bellow green frequency number.
And then it sets that radio frequency for either vu 1, 2 or 3.
Since V/U 1 is enabled at the volume knobs, by default. Setting the number to the triangle above the V/U 1 green frequency, will cause it to engage and enable / activate that radio.
The white frequency is the secondary frequency for quick switch.
So clr > frequency# > green triangle above/bellow white frequency.
This sets the secondary frequency for that V/U.
So then to quick switch between primary and secondary frequency (for V/U 1 in this example) is to press the green triangle above the V/U 1 white frequency number. This causes the radio to switch back and forth, so the white frequency number becomes green and the green one becomes the white one. Switching between e.g. 122.000 and 123.000 back and forth.

The bottom right of the radio frequencies is to set the transponder code. Appearantly that is for safety number identity. Not sure how it works. The M1 does not work. But I can change the m3 one, while the checklist says i should change the m1 one.
There are certain emergency transponder number codes, 7700 maybe? No idea.

But this is all completely optional. For me, it works fine just using the interface ATC.
But it would be cool to have ground/tower on V/U1 set to 100% volume and then enable V/U 2 with 25% volume and set it to ATIS frequency.
Gonna try that, helps to get more info, like wind direction and speed.

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