The F-16 Fighting Falcon Just Voiced a Video Game Character (Itself, Obviously)
F-16 Fighting Falcons from the New Jersey Air National Guard will be lending their ‘voice’ to the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) video game series.
Tyler Bolhuis, who runs Echo 19 Audio Productions, spent a day with the 177th Fighter Wing, last February, recording the Atlantic City, New Jersey-based F-16s. Soon, the recordings will be enshrined within the code of MSFS.
“The audio will feature in an upcoming module for the 2024 and 2020 editions of Microsoft Flight Simulator,” Air & Space Forces Magazine reported.
Now Everyone Can Listen to the F-16’s ‘Voice’
Bolhuis recorded a wide range of sounds from the Fighting Falcon: cockpit switches and buttons, the aircraft’s battery turning on, the canopy opening and closing, the engine start-up—of course—and even the aircraft flying at low altitude. The idea was to give virtual pilots an immersive sensory experience flying, in........
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