TrackIR users

[Silent6]

Who here is using TrackIR ? I was wondering who uses it and what everyone's thoughts were regarding making it a little more challenging to acquire a target when your dog fighting. Personally I think it takes more skill to play with one and have high accuracy as well. What are you're thoughts TIR users?

[Lusche]

I'm using it, and I disagree on the increased skill requirement. I find it to advantageous in terms of SA and keeping track of your enemy in a dogfight, and has no impact at all on my gunnery, with the exception of the few planes lacking a reflective gunsight (A-20, Il-2, WW1 planes)

[FLS]

Most players won't go back to hat views after using TrackIR comfortably. It's fairly easy to get used to flying with it but fighting with it takes longer, especially when you have strong hat view habits.

[Silent6]

I must need to adjust my profile then since most times when i look around and the try to get in my sight its never quite centered or zeroed on the cross hairs.... I always have to kind adjust my head so the sight centers out...

[coombz]

Bind a button on your stick to TIRs centre view

[Latrobe]

Don't think I'd be able to fly without TrackIR. I sometimes turn it off when I'm in ship guns, and I find myself still trying to look around with my head. At first it was a little difficult to get used to and trying to find the perfect profile setting, but once you get everything perfect it's going to help SA a LOT! Plus, you get to use your hat views for other functions!

[Rich52]

Its a big help, tho it may take weeks to get used to. I still have problems with it when on the deck. One thing I ended up doing with it is moving up my standard foward view in fighters, so I only see on the dash stuff I must, and find that I shoot more now without having to button zoom. I turned off the axis that brings you in and out cause it was to disorientating.

I find it even more usefull for infantry games or tanking/GVs.

[FLS]

I must need to adjust my profile then since most times when i look around and the try to get in my sight its never quite centered or zeroed on the cross hairs.... I always have to kind adjust my head so the sight centers out...

You just need to set enough deadzone in the center so your head can move a little without your view changing and as Coombz suggested set a recenter button to easily reset your view. You can then set your center off of the gunsight when you need to look up or back for extended periods as well as resetting the center because you moved in your chair.

[The Fugitive]

I haven't used mine in a while. I have a lighting issue I haven't fixed yet as well as having trouble with my aim. I posted a write up on how/what to do to set up your TrackIR here, http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,329017.0.html

[zack1234]

Track ir is so good i use it in real life

[Auger]

After 10 years or so of flying WB & AH with hat views, switching to TrackIR was a bit of a challenge.  I had a heckuva time getting the profile set right, with a corresponding loss of SA.  I still lose sight sometimes when it's a particularly hairy knife fight, which rarely happened with hat views.  But I'll be using TrackIR for the rest of my life.  It adds some realism, it gives me the ability to see some angles quickly that we're hard to get to with a hat, and now that the profile is ironed out my SA is better overall.

If anything, it is easier to acquire a target.  I can scan the sky in segments much easier.  Adding a HOTAS button to center the view makes gunnery no worse (nor better, alas) than before.

[Noir]

I bought one, but it turned me into a 2 weeker instantly, and a SA was one of my strong points so I stoped using it.

Trackir5, almost brand new, in its box, to sell in Europe, 100€.

[coombz]

Nuke get that TrackIR out of the box and try again

just deal with dying more than usual and having a worse score for the short time it takes to become accustomed to it - it really is worth it

what helped me a LOT was duelling over and over and over in the DA with yarbles, he kicked my bellybutton 9/10 times, but I improved my fighting skills a little bit, and after only a couple of evenings I felt really comfortable with the TrackIR

[Noir]

no way, I just don't look straight at my screen when aiming and I like to fly looking backwards, which is nearly impossible with trackIR. I can't use it in daylight because of what's behind my desk, I don't want to spend another 50 euros for the trackIR clip, I don't need any SA improvement either.

TrackIR is just an overpriced bother to me.

[Noir]

and get your sorry bum online.