so how do you copy the sound from another aircraft ? im new at this .
There are two ways to do it. neither is hard.
Inside every aircraft folder there should be a sound folder.
The first way is to just go to your sound folder of the plane you want to copy the sounds from.
- Highlight or select all files in the folder
- right click
- copy
- then paste them into the sound folder of the plane you want to have the same sounds.
C:\...{your path}...FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\Boeing_T45C\sound
That is the expensive way to go about it but the plane in question will have all the same sounds as the plane that you took the files from. The problem with method is now I am taking up more space on my hard drive for sounds that I do not need to copy.
Now the cheap and easy way to do it.
Aliasing the sounds to the other aircraft.
Inside every sound folder is a sound.cfg file.
In the case of Dino's T45C there is only one file in the folder and that is the sound.cfg file.
You can open this file with notepad or what ever other text editor you use.
In fact I associate the .cfg files with notepad so that it opens them all the time.
When you open this file you will see this text
[fltsim]
alias=FA-18\sound
This tells the sim to look for the sounds in the FA-18 aircraft folder and use those sounds.
Lets say you had a new plane you just installed and it had no sound file in it at all but the aircraft is similar to a Cessna 172.
We would just create the sound.cfg file place it in a folder named sound. The sound folder would go in aircraft folder we just installed. The sound cfg file would contain this text.
[fltsim]
alias=C172\sound
Now all of the Cessna 172 sounds would play during the sim. I did not have to duplicate any files and the config file takes up 1 KB of space.
This only touches the surface of aliasing folders in FS.