General Sound & Audio Questions & Answers

Flight-simulator audio faults rarely have one cause. Missing ATC speech can come from voice settings, radio tuning, device routing or an incomplete language installation, while silent cockpit switches and engines may point to sound sliders, camera-specific mixing, a muted Windows channel or the wrong output device.

This hub also covers add-on aircraft with absent sound sets, broken aliases, misplaced folders or incompatible packages, plus crackling, stutter and distortion caused by sample rates, drivers, latency or excessive audio load. The Fly Away team writes and tests the answers across common simulators, focusing on checks that isolate whether the fault belongs to the aircraft, the simulator, the operating system or the hardware.