There’s different kinds of ear pain. For example, I get this really weird one occasionally where I don’t think its pressure related at all. Moving my outer ear about its like a nerve is being pushed, and can be extremely painful in just the right spot, and nothing otherwise. It can happen during the day, so no pressure from sleeping either. It tends to go away by itself too, usually over a few hours.
It’s definitely an issue for most people if you’re descending too fast in a non-pressurized aircraft. Even in pressurized airliners a lot of people will feel ear discomfort during descent.
500 ft/minute is usually a good descent rate for non-pressurized aircraft. More than that and it can get very uncomfortable.
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Sure, but that is not a disqualification from flying high in an unpressurised aircraft. The pressure swing per 1,000ft is no different whether you are descending from 20,000ft or 10,000ft. It is actually marginally WORSE lower down. And the rate of pressure change inside a pressurised commercial aircraft descending at (a quite common) 3,000 FPM is not all that different from descending @ 500 FPM in a non-pressurised aircraft.
FWIW IRL I always used to descend around 500 FPM, maybe 700 on occasion, exactly for that reason. Not sure if it is still the case but in my time that was something instructors taught you.
Which is modeled with a warning in the Bonanza Pro.
Pretty cool.
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New idea for immersion product - nose and ear inserts that respond to MSFS telemetry with numbing cold…
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That’s up there with the one someone posted a long time ago about a fan linked to aircraft speed blowing in your face. 
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Force Feedback Fan.
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A helicopter would be fun. You clould have the fan mounted on a curved track, up the wall and under the ceiling like a garage door.
I’d call it the ‘Osprey Fan’.
(OK, I’ve “derailed” this thread enough.) Checking out until I have something else on-topic. 
I’m still waiting for BKSQ or some independent dev to develop a mod that monitors the cabin temperature and says in a mother-in-law voice “IT’S REALLY COLD IN HERE, CAN YOU TURN UP THE HEAT!!”, or “IT’S GETTING A BIT TOASTY!!!”
Sorry, derailing even further.
I need to bust out the Bonanzas this weekend! Baron has gotten enough hours this calendar year. 
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What about my most awaited premier of the year among GAs - black square caravan? What state of development it is? I have this itching feeling that it will just wipe out other pawns from the turboprop fidelity bushplanes category… 
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There’s the Caravan and King Air that are still waiting for a 2024 native version (Pro?) unless those aren’t coming, I genuinely don’t know. He’s also working on a commander series both piston and turboprop. That a lot for a dev, but rest assured whatever comes next will be done right
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One of precious few developers where I would break a cardinal rule, and buy it sight unseen, no review necessary.
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Make a conditional event in SPAD.
IF ‘CABIN TEMP’ > OR < ‘X’
PLAY “screaming_M-I-L.wav”
Recording the screaming mother-in-law wave file is up to you.
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Much easier to set up than some might think.
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I have been using the pressurized Baron a lot recently… and I seem to spend a lot of my time adjusting the cabin heat so it’s not freezing cold or blazing hot…
Not complaining - this is very realistic… in our Arrow, the heat is either surface-of-the-sun, foot-melting hot or just plain freezing… half the flight is (daughter speaking, here) - “Dad! My feet are soooo hot!”.. slides heater slightly to the cooler side… “Dad!!! It’s freeeeeeeeezing in here!! “
Can’t win.
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AI voices are getting really good these days. No need to involve the mother in law
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There might be support for a “Mother in law” applet here and the use could be further extended to include use MiL as a carbon monoxide detector as well, or to include incessant nagging at decision heights, etc.
Right. Back on topic now….
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Nick said on the just flight forums that he’s trying to release some new info this or next week!
And potentially get the manual into users hands as well 
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Ah, totally forgot that Spad has audio output. I’ve used the basic text-to-voice functionality to remind me to “change fuel tank” on the Bonanza every ten minutes. The “Microsoft David” or “Microsoft Zira” voices built into Windows are kinda boring, but they work.
Maybe I’ll add this as a snippet…will advise.
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TTS can also be scripted, so you don’t need audio specifically.
At its simplest:
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech
$synth = New-Object -TypeName System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer
$synth.Speak("hello")
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