R66 - Multiplayer audio too loud, cannot reduce

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

During multiplayer flights in MSFS2024, If another player joins with the Microsoft / Carenado R66 Helicopter, the multiplayer audio heard by others is excessively loud and cannot be reduced using the ‘Other Aircraft’ volume slider. We also noted that the Sound Loudness Limiter is showing the audio in the Player Aircraft channel instead of the AI Aircraft channel.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Always during multiplayer sessions with the R66 present.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

  1. Player 1 loads into sim with R66 engine running.

  2. Player 2 loads into sim at same location with any aircraft cold and dark.

  3. Player 2 visually identifies Player 1 and verifies that Player 1 is spawned as an Microsoft / Carenado R66 (not Asobo passive aircraft).

  4. Player 2 listens for R66 multiplayer sounds.

  5. Player 2 goes into settings and reduces ‘Other Aircraft’ volume levels to zero.

  6. Player 2 listens for R66 multiplayer sounds again. Expect to hear nothing, however, audio still loud.

  7. Player 2 turns on Dev Mode, opens debug ‘Sound Loudness Limiter’. Observes the AI Aircraft channel is showing nothing and the Player Aircraft channel is showing audio (player 2 aircraft is not running).

YOUR SETTINGS

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

Yes, for final observation only. Not required to produce the problem.

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?

Problem occurs for many users on varied systems.

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

MEDIA

As the test subject pictured, I can confirm these observations. Has happened multiple weeks in a row.

This is especially bad when there’s a streamed group helicopter flight, and the audio gets messed up for the streamers.

As a host of multiplayer group flights, I am very eager for this problem to be addressed. If someone else reasonably chooses the Microsoft/Carenado R66 in one of our flights, other participants are beset with unwanted audio playing at a loud volume in their cockpits.

Had this same issue when by chance I flew near another player flying the R66. Once I got further away the sound disappeared again.

heard this in the groupflight (MC Let’s fly) the R66 was always louder than the others…