I have no sounds, no matter what. I don't really notice once I'm going, but even so, such a small outstanding problem is the kind of thing that I find myself countering in forum rants against Captain Sim.

Even with the edit you mentioned, it doesn't work. Also, ctl+shift+R doesn't do anything. I have tried the RESET option from the drop-down menu, and CHOOSING the same 727. Multiple times. No difference. I have tried opening the COLD-AND-DARK flight directly.

What I do have is a loud noise that sounds like a fan, and "phantom engine" sounds. When I load that flight, I get a loud noise plus the above-mentioned fan noise. After a couple of seconds it stops, and there is silence. As soon as I flip the battery switch to the "on" position the loud fan noise returns. But there are still no clicks or ding-dongs.

I am using the TSS engine sounds, but I have the same installed in three different airplanes, including the CS 737-200, and the 727 is the only one giving me trouble, so I don't think that's it. Anyway, this is the same near-universal problem people have with this airplane.

[Rant deleted.]

So, any other ideas?

I have uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times. Nick provided some help that almost has me there. Copy the 707 sound gauge, rename it to the same name as the 727 one and drop it into the gauges folder. It did indeed give me beautiful clicks, dings and APU sound. The problem now is that I don't have any other sounds in the cockpit. Not so much as a whisper from my Whisperjet at full throttle. Eerie. That's not gonna work, either.

SUCCESS! Finally.

Like Nick suggested, I copied the 707 sound gauge to my desktop, and renamed it the exact same name as my 727 sound gauge: Captain_Sim.p727.sound.gau. Then I removed the original 727 gauge and replaced it in the gauge folder with the re-named 707 gauge.

(If you have done this correctly, red warning text will appear at the top of your screen when you load the 727.)

That did not work, but I traced the problem to the old sound config trick. With all the uninstalling and reinstalling, I had forgotten to change the "1" to a "0" as Mark suggested above. When I did that, the combination of the two fixes gave me cockpit sounds. BUT... as soon as the APU finished starting up, a very loud fan-type noise started. It was everywhere. Inside the cockpit, outside the airplane. It was the only sound I now had and I couldn't get rid of it. Even reloading didn't help.

Through experimentation, however, I found that if I reloaded after I started one engine, the loud fan noise or whatever went away, and I had normal cockpit sounds and normal engine sounds. And by reloading, I mean selecting the airplane again.

So, by using every trick in the book, and with a lot of help, I now have cockpit sounds. Needless to say, since this is a common problem that some seem to have to jump through more hoops than others to fix, it would be really nice if Captain Sim would just fix it. Surely they know what the problem is.

Thanks Nick, and Mark, for your help.

rservice wrote on Jan 31^st, 2014 at 3:38pm:

I just gave it a test, it installed fine for me in Win8.1.

CSdoesnotwork wrote on Mar 1^st, 2014 at 11:23pm:

The 707 doesn't have an APU, so the reason for the APU sound stopping might have something to do with your using the 707 sound.dll.

CSdoesnotwork wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2014 at 4:30pm:

It's worth trying.

So now I am having issue with the avionics shutting down.  When I first purchased and installed this aircraft, I only had two issues, the sound issue that destroys this aircraft and the FLight Director does not work.  I have this issue with the 707 and c130..,even with the FD turned on it would not function.  I could handle that just fine, the auto pilot worked and I could fly it without a FD.  I fixed the sound issues with using the 707 sound gauge.

Recently FSX crashed and I had to do a complete reinstall of FSX, now my 727 is worthless.  I have the avionics crash that everyone is talking about and changing the Config file does not work for me..it still crashes, the APU sounds randomly shut off.  I thought I had that fixed but it started again.   

I am at my whits end with this aircraft and Captainsim either needs to come out and state that they are currently working on this aircraft to fix it or they give up..it has been over 3 years now