Jets that sound like jets
A pilot put it in five words: “the jets still have the propeller sounds.” Dead right. Every jet in the game hummed like a radial engine — strap into a Rhino, firewall the throttle, and out came the same drone as a Sparrowhawk. Not anymore. The jets now carry a real turbojet voice.
What a jet sounds like now
A jet has no pistons, so it has no drone. Instead you get two things stacked: a deep thrust roar that brightens as the engine winds up, and a thin turbine whine riding on top, climbing with the revs. Push the throttle forward and listen for the beat the turbine takes to answer — that little spool-up delay is the whole character of a jet, the pause a piston engine never had. Chop the lever and the whine doesn't just stop; it spools down out from under you.
That spool is a warning system, too. Take engine damage and the voice sags off its note, same as the old piston mutter always did — a flaming-out turbine falling out of song is your cue that you're about to be a glider.
Right from the outside, too
It's not just your own cockpit. When a jet tears past the camera on the spectator stream, it now roars and whines like a jet as it passes, the whole sound climbing and dropping as it screams by — not the old prop hum panning across the screen. Watch an early-jets fleet action and it finally sounds like the era it's set in.
Even the odd ones out are covered. The Arclight carries eight turbojets tucked in underwing pods with no visible burner flame — and she used to be the one big jet that kept droning like something from 1943. Now the biggest jet in the sky sounds like eight turbines, the way she always should have.
Fly it and listen
Any jet, either hangar. Hold the lever down and wait for the turbine to catch up to you — then chop it and hear it wind down. The sky over the Brick Gulf finally sounds like jets are in it.