posted 11-09-1999 11:52 AM          

Lars F.

posted 11-09-1999 12:37 PM                  

Just an observation-- is it likely your ground crew would strap two cardboard papertowel tubes to your eyeballs and ask you to fly into combat? No, but that's what flying a computer on a 17", two-dimensional monitor is like. A misslie padlock is simply a way of making up for the fact that you can't rapidly swing your head around and view the world with 20/10 vision, like a real combat pilot would. We suffer enough handicaps in the feedback/interface department while "flying" on a computer; additional limitations are not needed, thanks.

posted 11-09-1999 12:49 PM                  

Cheers Dietger

posted 11-09-1999 03:21 PM                  

No, see, that's the problem! For me, its very unlikely (so far anyway).

posted 11-10-1999 02:58 AM                  

Lars F.

posted 11-10-1999 06:30 AM                  

I know what you mean, 'if its not realistic, why add it?' But man it is always so tough to hear that missle launch warning and not be able to pick it up using the pan view. I would assume that a real pilot would have a better chance of seeing it, since they base their avoidance techniques on that.
I don't know how hard it would be to add, but it's something we can easily choose NOT to use if we don't want to. I'd rather see that that 1/2 a dozen outside views, which are cool, but hardly realistic either.

posted 11-10-1999 01:04 PM                  

http://users.bart.nl/~willem/

posted 11-10-1999 09:20 PM          

(unless Flanker 2 models missile contrails at altitude.)

posted 11-10-1999 10:17 PM          

MOP