How to break the sound barrier?

I tried once without success. I was flying the Hornet (F18) faster than 761 mph, but did not hear or experience anything. Has anyone else done it and if so, how?

Tim

 

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Err... you were flying faster than the speed of sound and didn't hear anything?

I don't think supersonic flight is supported yet, so you won't see or hear any default effects for now.

Edited January 14, 2022 by tiger1962

When I have flown the Hornet that fast, in outside view if you pan around the plane, it goes quite at the front, but when you go to the back, you hear a boom. Inside the plane you don't hear it.

 

You can download the Warrior mod off of flightsim.to and I believe that it will add a vapor cone around the wings.

Even if it was supported, I don’t think you would hear the sonic boom. People on the ground would hear it as you passed by, but onboard the aircraft it would sound normal.

 

Regards

Steve

 

Edit: you beat me to it Jeff :)

To support what Steve said, the things I've read over the years about supersonic flight, from Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover to the Concorde and beyond indicates that aside from potential control problems in poorly designed aircraft, the transition thru and past mach 1 is only noticed by reading the mach meter.

 

The sonic booms (to over-simplify) are shock waves that are created by the aircraft as the air has trouble getting out of the way quickly enough, so they roll off of the aircraft in a continuous pressure wave that spreads out behind the aircraft like a boat's wake (close enough for this post), so as it hits the "shore" (the ground) it booms, much like an ocean wave makes noise when it hits the rocks on shore.

 

So if the effects are, indeed, included in the sim, those effects would only be apparent if you were to fly over your ground presence, perhaps in the tower or otherwise in some sort of external view.

Larry thank you for that explanation, you made it easy for me to get iit too.... AD

Glad it helps.

Correct, you do not hear it in the aircraft. I've done it for real in several real aircraft. Sometimes the Mach Indicator jumps just a little depending on pitot- static system characteristics.

Thanks to all for your input.

I thought I had read somewhere that it is supported by MFS.