cockpit.vew and deflection shooting? (ien rulz)

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  1. -exec-

    -exec- FH Consultant

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    i have an impression that...

    well, someone wants to check distance between centre of the gunsight and lower margin of the wind-screen?

    for example, corsair had that gap (crucial for shooting in turn-and-boom and many other situations) bigger than hayate.

    moreover, some american planes have gunsight mount raised above wind-screen lower edge, allowing to observe the target even lower.

    so, anyone can check the matter?
     
  2. Zembla JG13

    Zembla JG13 FH Beta Tester

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    What you're trying to say is that you think iEN gave some planes an unfair advantage by the way the gunsight was placed/cockpit was drawn?

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  4. RolandGarros

    RolandGarros Well-Known Member

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    i always just adjust the chair at my computer higher, until con is at my 6:00
     
  5. airfax

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    Damn. I've always thought that US pilots just sat higher than jap pilots.
    btw, isn't the same problomo in all jap planes? (Comparing in US ones...)
     
  6. rudeboy

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    ROTFL!!!!!!!
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  7. flygavn1

    flygavn1 New Member

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    If thats an issue, what about the view in p-38???
     
  8. rudeboy

    rudeboy Well-Known Member

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    Or the front view in a Beaufighter.......
     
  9. Jacobe

    Jacobe Well-Known Member

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    IMHO get invisible frontview allowed to gold planes.

    And exec, why did Training Arena TA disappear ? Any chance to get it back ?
     
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  10. looseleaf

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    Oh Really?
     
  11. looseleaf

    looseleaf Well-Known Member

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    Funny thing that.

    I know in Aces HIgh, you can adjust the seating position, left and right, up and down.

    Here at FH I always take a spare telephone book or two.
     
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    What is this? People already whining (about WB2007)?? %) [​IMG]
     
  13. bizerk

    bizerk Well-Known Member

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    It's the pre-ruining ;) ALW <S>

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  14. hugo baskervill

    hugo baskervill Well-Known Member

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    Imho jap planes, and propably any other common plane has setable chair.
     
  15. tigrou

    tigrou Well-Known Member

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    setable chair was for rolling only imo.
    in fight, i imagin pilots prefered get into their shoulders and never pass the head above armor.
     
  16. Jacobe

    Jacobe Well-Known Member

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    Living in Russia :)
     
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