Made an interesting discovery today when running PS2 or PS3 engines via DCS version 6.0 (not sure, but may work with older versions too):
While holding labored or drift chuff as the engine is moving, pull a battery out of the DCS remote, and then put it back in and turn your remote back on. You can keep the labored or drift sound going constantly this way without holding the button down and still vary speed up and down and toot other sounds without losing the laboring/drifting command, even when you bring the engine to a halt and back up to speed again. (You may have to return your SMPH back to where it was before you pulled the battery, that's the only catch.) To Cancel, just hit the labor or drift button again and things return to normal. BEWARE THOUGH: if you have labored smoke turned on, holding the labor sound could keep the heating element at excessive heat for too long, so maybe shut that feature off first unless you can monitor the smoke for a long time, or switch over to MED or MIN smoke output...MAX may be pushing it a bit too much with this function.
This takes care of the fact that it is kind of annoying to have to hold down that button and you cannot toot the whistle or perform other functions while getting the labored sound effect otherwise.
Now it's not just the Legacy or TMCC world that can maintain one type of chuff sound. Not perfect, but works!
You're welcome = ) !!!!
