Hello,

    Everyone in the Simviation Forums seem to be particularly helpful and pleasant, so I'm returning the favor by offering my variation on the UI Background Sound file.
    You hear two wav files while the UI (User Interface) is showing (for you newer players, the UI World is the animated airfield in the background while you are at the various menus):

• uimusic.wav
• ambience_airfield01.wav

    The UIMusic is of course, the music, but the less known Airfield Ambience is in this case, a three-second looped sound file of wind blowing.  Wind!  Remember all the great airfield noises in CFS1?  Come on Microsoft, I know you can do much better.  I believe in you!
    Anyway, I often have the music disabled, because you get slightly improved performance with it off.  However, I get sick and tired of just hearing the wind blow, so I made up my own three-minute version that sounds much more like a mildly busy airfield.  There are birds, trucks, planes, music, even an officer arguing with his men.  Listen closely.  The file is about 3.23 Mb.

http://www.markzelmer.com/downloadables/AirfieldAmbience.zip

    The only problem is that the sounds wouldn't really quite fit as well if it is winter in your UI World.  There's a lot of birds.  I love birds.  When I decided to do the voices, I did British RAF voices, but if anyone likes this, maybe I'll make a few versions for German, American, and other nationalities' airfields.  Granted, I speak German, but my German accent is awful.  My natural accent is Donegal Irish, and if you've ever heard that you'll know it's a cross between Scottish and Sh**e.  Just doing an English one is a stretch.

    Right, I actually have considered the idea of creating some new, much more realistic voicepacks for CFS3, especially to try and properly reflect the multinational RAF: that is, add some Australians, New Zealanders, Scottish, Irish, a couple Yanks for an Eagle Squadron or two... hell, even a guy from the East End might be nice for a change.  Some swearing would be lovely.

    Am I just being insane... again... or is this a moderately decent enough idea... that is, would anyone care?

    Bye now.

  Hello again,

  Someone wrote back already?
 
  Yes, this wav file will work in place of the UIMusic file, but it works best to disable the uimusic altogether, and put this in place of the "wind" file, because I built this soundtrack upon the wind noise, and it would sound quite bad if both were going at the same time.  This file has some music in it: "Lili Marlene", by Marlene Dietrich.  This song became incredibly popular amongst the German, and allied soldiers as well.  In fact, the British Army became so fed up of its' soldiers singing the German version, they circulated a translated English version amongst the troops.  
     I've included very specific instructions in the ZIP file, if you're not quite comfortable with what to do.

    I was going to set up a Real-Audio file that you could listen to before you downloaded, but my Audio Editor won't let me save it in RA format!

    Thanks for reading.

I just got done with it and it too is great.  You know your English accent isn't to bad.  My only problem is there are to many birds.  But its great anyway.    

Great Job GooseGoose! I got tired of listening to the xamb_airfield.wav of cfs2!