Yes, there is for example no dataref that tells you when to play the minimums announcement. You’d need to do the math yourself, getting the value of the minimum setting and the current radio altitude from datarefs, and then trigger the sound based on a calculation.

The idea of the event model is that X-Plane already knows when to play those sounds, without the need for authors to write more code.

I can put out an update with silent .wavs or remove the triggers in the .snd, but I don’t understand. Were some of the other cockpit sounds inaccessible via datarefs as of 11.05? Or is this just going to make them easier to trigger somehow? Sorry if I am not getting something obvious, I struggle with technical things sometimes 🙂

Thank you for the info. It will be awesome to have the ability to use our knowlegde and professional sound experience to make the XP11 more sound alive outside of the airplane and the airports. We’ll need to build more immersion in sound…

Totally understand, thanks for replying. I do not, but hopefully there are some people in the community that can help you with the access to the aircraft at some point.

Please email me chris _at_ x-plane.com so I have your information for reference.

The timeframe on those is unknown at this point unless you know someone who could get us unrestricted access to an operating 747 and/or MD-80. That’s always our limitation.

Thank you Audiobird! That would be so sweet! 🙂 I made a rudimentary GPWS in XLua too but it doesn’t play the sounds only one time per approach, as Honeywell states in their GPWS manual.

That’s great to know. BTW I’m sitting on tons of airport related sound files I recorded, including almost any vehicle you can find at an airport. I’d be overjoyed to be of any assistance.

If you want to I’d be happy to share the GWPS I DID replicate so far (for same planes it’s necessary because the LR callouts are of e.g. for the altitude depending on how the aircraft is programmed).

It’s something we plan to do but I don’t have a time-frame to announce. Some of the infrastructure work to make this happen is already in X-Plane 11.10 – the new “instanced” object API in X-Plane uses new dataref access code that is meant to support FMOD, particle systems, and multi-core rendering.