737NG SERIES

sound immersion pack ver. 1807 REV 1

READ BEFORE INSTALLING:

This product is provided for free, but it is copyrighted and is shared with some rights reserved:

By installing this sound pack, you acknowledge that it is not permitted to reupload any file in the pack to
any other side or to modify, re-use, reverse-engineer or share any file in this pack. This also includes
any configuration files and scripts that are provided with this immersion pack.

You install and use this pack at your own risk. Should you damage your software or hardware in any
way I will not be held responsible.

HINT: DO NOT USE with any other plane (it’s not going to work properly).

(c) by audiobirdxp / o. schmidt 2017/2018

audiobirdxp@gmail.com
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 CHANGE LOG

1807 REV 1
:
• added safeguards against mixer failure due to buggy right fwd door. should remove reported sound drop outs.
• added set 11 – delta airlines (1) to announcement sets
• added surround version (not recommended to users without real 7.1 sound sets; not recommended for 5.1 or 7.1 headsets)
• no more supersonic buzz on deployed reversers with high N1
• corrected / improved exterior reverser sounds (close and far)
• fixed internal and external fuel pumps playing at the same time on the inside
• brought back solenoid clack (landing gear) on liftoff (got lost from some version on)
• fixed fuel pump sounds cutting out in cockpit (but not cabin) when activating hydraulic pumps
• fixed wiper 3D position
• added optional 7.1. surround version (in folder “fmod > 7.1. SURROUND VERSION”)
 INSTALLATION

IMPORTANT LIMITATIONS:

DO NOT use AI aircraft of a different type with the same sound set. For
example: You fly the 737-900 and the AI flies the 737-700. X-Plane WILL
CRASH. You CAN use AI that fly THE SAME aircraft without conflict (e.g.
you fly the 737-700 and you can have AI pilots flying the EXACT same
aircraft).

FOR ALL CUSTOM AIRCRAFT: DO NOT INSTALL UNDER “LAMINAR

RESEARCH”.

Installation steps:

If you downloaded this package with any aircraft of the 737 Ultimate
project, you don’t need to do anything.

If you downloaded this package for the Zibo modified 737-800:

• Remove any folder called “fmod” from your Zibo 737 aircraft
directory.
• Copy and paste the included folder “fmod” into the Zibo 737 aircraft
folder. Done. (Mac: Make sure you replace any existing fmod
entirely!)

Credits

init.lua / xlua plug-in provided by Laminar Research

 HOW TO USE THE IMMERSION PACK

HINT: You can always use X-Plane’s built-in volume controls in the
settings menu (settings > sound). They work just fine. The custom
options are implemented to fine-tuned certain aspects of the sound.

CUSTOM OPTIONS

Click on the page ADVANCED in the FMC.

HINT: If you set up for the first time, set all volume levels to 5.
Then use X-Plane’s menu and move the “internal” slider until
the overall volume is good for you. Then start fine-tuning.
Volume levels on 5 will give a balanced, more or less
realistic set-up that should still work with VATSIM etc.

If you want the sound system to follow your flight dynamically including all
the passengers’ and crews’ sounds, you need to follow standard procedures.
Most importantly, you should BOARD (START FLIGHT LEG) the aircraft first –
if not it will be assumed empty.

If you hotstart (e.g. in air, with engines running) the aircraft is always
assumed boarded, flight started, doors closed (see “FLIGHT CONTROL”).
 FLIGHT CONTROL

BOARDING & STARTING A LEG

• If you want to start boarding => navigate to the menu FLIGHT CONTROL and
select START FLIGHT LEG (BOARDING).

This will tell the immersion pack to start boarding and adapt correctly to the
flight phases. Among other things this will ensure the (virtual) cabin door is
closed in the appropriate flight phase and outside sounds are correctly
dampened.

TERMINATING A FLIGHT & ENDING A LEG

• If you want your passengers to leave after gate arrival => select END
FLIGHT.

CARGO LOADING / CATERING & CLEANING CREW

• If you want to hear the cargo crew loading the plane, catering people
rummaging and cleaning crew prepare the plane, select CARGO LOAD
START (in between flight legs). If you want to stop these sounds, select
CARGO LOAD STOP.

• Cargo loading is also played on the outside and blends nicely with ground
handling and third party ground handling addons.
 OPTIONS

IMPORTANT NOTE:
THE FMC MENU IS SUBJECT TO FREQUENT CHANGE. THESE PAGES MAY NOT
DISPLAY THE CURRENT LAYOUT OF THE MENU, BUT MOST OPTIONS SHOULD
BE SELF-EXPLAINING.

While the flight attendants’ announcements are triggered in certain situations,

the captain’s announcements are triggered manually via FMC menu.

Before pushback or taxi, you should start the flight via FLIGHT CONTROL (see
below)
FEATURE EFFECT
PAX BOARD enable / disable the boarding sounds
This will NOT start the boarding, it will only enable or disable the feature.
PAX CHATTER enable / disable passengers chatting when on board
This will NOT start the chatter, it will only enable or disable the feature.
AIRPORT SET choose between two sets or airport ambience with
vehicles and aircraft (regional / large airport) or basic
(basic airport background)
ANALOG GYRO enable / disable the analog gyro sounds (“woodpecker”,
NOT realistic for a current 737-800 due to digital gyros)
MUTE FMC mute the FMC message chime (this is customizable by
airlines, most do not use FMC chimes)

VOLUMES

Control feature volumes here. You should start with everything on 5 . Go higher to
emphasize a sound group or lower to have it more in the background. It’s NOT a good idea
to set everything to 10! It will most likely distort depending on your XPLANE volume
settings. Remember the overall sound volume is still controlled by X-Plane. E.g. if you
lower the exterior volume in the X-Plane menu, this will also effect the 737’s exterior
sounds.

HINT: Instead of disabling features, you can also set a feature’s volume to 0.
FEATURE EFFECT
PM This is used for the Pilot Monitoring’s callouts. You can
safely set this to 10.
ROLLS Used for all sounds that have to do with rolling on
ground and impacts of all kinds
BUMPS fine-tuning the amount of bumps and thuds (mainly
affects volume on centerline and low taxi speed
bumps)

ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANNOUNC. VOL. Announcement volume in general
ANNOUNC. SET choose between 4 sets that differ in the Captain’s voice
NR / text and the FA voices / texts
CAPT WELCOME welcome speech by captain
CAPT CRUISE typical level-off speeches
CAPT DESCENT captain announcing begin of descent
CAPT PRELAND captain announcing approach, followed by flight
attendants’ security announcements
TURBULENCE flight attendants’ turbulence warning

EQ

The EQ sections can be used to adapt the sound to different headphones or speakers. You
can ADD lows, mids and highs. If you don’t use any EQ, it will switch off and won’t impact
performance. Take care not to kill your speakers with too much low end.

DEFAULT – Clicking this will reset all custom options to the default values.

SAVE – On the first page of ADVANCED you can click SAVE to have your current settings
stored. You can also save PRESETS of your sounds.
 AUTOMATED CREW ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALL- OUTS

Callouts

flight phase crew member announcement trigger

take-off / rollout Pilot monitoring 80 knots ground speed = 80 knots

take-off GPWS “V1” ground speed = V1 on the take-off

take-off Pilot monitoring “V1” ground speed = V1 on the take-off

take-off Pilot monitoring “rotate” ground speed = Vr on the take-off

take-off Pilot monitoring “400” passing 400 feet AGL on take-off

take-off Pilot monitoring “1000” passing 1000 feet AGL on take-off

descent Pilot monitoring “1000 feet, passing 1000 feet AGL on descent /
stabilized...”” approach

climb / descent Pilot monitoring “1000 to go” 1000 feet before designated altitude

FLIGHT ATTENDANT in COCKPIT

There is also a virtual ;) flight attendant that will have messages for the flight deck.

flight phase message trigger

after initiating FA informs that LEO approx. 1 min after boarding, only sometimes
boarding process on board (law
(FLIGHT LEG / enforcement officer)
START)
gate departure FA informs that after starting gate departure, door closed, first
passengers are announcement for PAX
“strapped in”
cruise FA asks if meal pressing ATTEND button on overhead during
service can be cruise phase
started

This feature will be expanded in future releases.

 ANNOUNCEMENTS AND MESSAGES

The pack’s scripts will follow your flight’s progress and determine which flight
phase your in. This governs which sounds are played automatically and also
controls the passenger’s chatter volume and minor events like the
passenger’s flushing the toilet now and then.
The logic of the scripts assumes that you are following some ground rules
that should fit into most or even every airline SOP out there.
The accuracy is also higher if you program the FMC properly. However, you can
still change your cruise altitude in flight (e.g. if your operator tells you so) and
the system should follow it.
You can also hand fly and it should work out ok. However, I suggest you at least
set ANY cruising altitude in the PERF page of the FMC because it will be set to
20.000 feet if you do not enter any other value after loading the plane and the
sound logic will assume this to be your designated cruise / descent altitude.
The following table lists which announcement is played by which trigger. Some
announcements are fully automated (e.g. pre-landing, after take-off), some
are triggered by you (seatbelts ON or OFF, starting or ending the boarding
process).
Under normal circumstances, you can even start in mid-air, on the runway or
do a 10 nm approach and the announcements should be played correctly. Hot-
starts (with engines running, on the runway, for example) are usually
detected. The typical gate departure sounds are then suppressed. However, if
you want the system to work at peak efficiency, you might want to stick to the
usual procedures.
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND MESSAGES / TRIGGERS and description

flight phase crew member announcement trigger

Manual triggers are shown in bold.
from pre flight
/ cold and dark
/ after landing

to Use FLIGHT LEG > START

(FMC > ADVANCED > SOUND > FLIGHT
boarding
CONTROLS)
or HOT START

Captain captain’s welcome SELECT CAPT WELCOME in FMC >

boarding message ANNOUNCEMENTS

on the ground Flight “The captain has SEATBELT SIGNS to ON

attendants turned on the (for a correct flow, play this during your overhead
seatbelt signs...” flow after PAX started boarding, but before gate
departure)
(PAX will fumble with
seatbelts whenever
you command belts
on or off)
gate Captain “Flight attendants • Anti-collision light to ON
departure, prepare for • you have not just landed
boarding departure...” (after
finished delay) cabin door,
Flight safety
attendants announcement /
video

cabin door closes

after some delay

pre take-off Captain Cabin crew prepare WING LIGHTS to ON

for take-off, (on the ground)

Flight pre take-off OR

attendants announcements
POSITION LIGHTS to STROBE & STEADY
(choose your preferred method in audio
config in FMC menu).

climb Flight After take-off • after take-off

attendants announcements • climbing
• at about 10000 feet AGL
 cruise Captain captain’s level off SELECT CAPT CRUISE in FMC >
message ANNOUNCEMENTS

in flight Flight The captain has seatbelts to ON (obviously) (air only)

attendants turned on the
seatbelts...

in flight Flight The captain has seatbelts to OFF (obviously) (air only)
attendants turned off the
seatbelts...

descent Captain descent SELECT CAPT DESCENT in FMC >

announcements ANNOUNCEMENTS

descent / Captain • SELECT CAPT PRELAND in FMC >

approach pre landing ANNOUNCEMENTS
Flight announcements
attendants

landed taxi to gate • after touch-down

Flight announcements • at least 40 secs total flight time
(crew)
attendants • about 30 seconds on the ground after
touch-down

Landing also resets announcements that are

usually played only once per flight (e.g. 400, 1000,
(applause ;) ) positive rate,...) so that they are played correctly on
PAX
the next leg of your flight.

de-boarding Flight prepare for arrival, SELECT FLIGHT END IN FMC > FLIGHT
attendants crosscheck,... CONTROLS
and

reset/ end cabin opens closes

flight / after some delay
start next leg
of the flight

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 CABIN DOOR TRIGGERS:

The cabin doors will be closed automatically if any of the following conditions are met:
• HOT START
• You are airborne.
• On the ground: TAXI LIGHTS not OFF
• On the ground: ANTI-COLLISION LIGHTS ON
• On the ground: Any engine is running
• On the ground: You started gate departure and the flight attendants closed the
door.

737 ULTIMATE: YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO OPEN THE DOORS IF THESE

CONDITIONS ARE MET!

AUTOMATED SEATBELT CHIME

Setting the SEATBELTS switch to AUTO will activate a seatbelt chime logic that should fit most airlines.
The SEATBELT chime will sound when
... crossing 10.000 feet AGL (on climb or descent)
... moving the flaps to any position other than UP during flight
... lowering the landing gear
SEATBELTS

PAX will fasten or un-fasten seatbelts according to your seatbelt sign settings. When seatbelts are
already fastened, the AUTO position will assume they should stay fastened, the OFF positioning causes
passengers to unfasten seatbelts.

ANNOUNCEMEN SETS

Currently there are 10 sets. The first 4 are not airline specific (the airline is not mentioned). Sets above
#4 are specific for airlines. They differ slightly depending on local time / sun angle in some parts. Also,
the procedures are not always exactly identical (only SWA attendants will announced the aircraft
cleared for departure e.g.). Enjoy finding out the small differences ;)

AIRPORT SETS

BUSY and REGIONAL are two variations of composed (fake) airport ambience. Setting airport ambience
to OFF will play a general background ambience. Select this to have your airport sounds come only from
FMOD ready airplanes on the airport (or other AI aircraft). Please note that only FMOD enabled aircraft
benefit fully from the dynamic filtering system (inside / outside / cabin door status / flight deck door
status). Other aircraft or plug-in powered vehicles filter sounds according to their own plug-ins (e.g.
betterpushback).
 TCAS AND GPWS SELF-TESTS
If you press the TCAS or GPWS test buttons, the appropriate test sounds will be played. Like in the real
cockpit, pressing the GPWS test button for 2 seconds or longer will start the long GPWS test.

OVERSPEED AND STICK SHAKER TEST

Work as they do in the real plane (see after-overhead panel)

OXYGEN MASK TEST

Click and hold either the red button or the test button in the top left corner of the oxygen mask panel. You will
first here the hiss of oxygen in the panel and later on through the PA.
 CUSTOM COMMANDS

You can assign keys / buttons to some custom commands that are specific to this
immersion pack. You can find them by opening XP11’s settings menu and then “keyboard”.
You can either scroll down until you find the commands OR you can simply enter “fmod”
into the search field.
Assign buttons as you like.

Hint: If you fly on VATSIM, PilotEdge or similar platforms, it might be useful to

assign at least one key of button to the DUCK function (which can also be used from
the FMC). This will drop your internal volume down instantly. Pressing again will
raise the volume back to what it was before.
This can be useful when communication with ATC etc.
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PROJECT

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If you want to support the project or think that the effort is worth a donation, you are
most welcome. It took about 6 months to build the first public release candidate, a lot of
begging (to ride on the jump seat), research, time and also money (audio equipment is
very expensive, full scale simulator time even more so).

You can find the donation links on the .org page and in the audiobirdxp forum.