Abolish 6 o'clock wiew! Poll

[Tumor]

NO

Tumor

[Swoop]

Originally posted by Citabria:
[QB]do this while driving your car funked (in a uncrowded wide open place)

in fact. ask yourself how often you actually turn your head 360 degrres and look back while driving? never. we have mirrors in cars.
QB]

Ok Cit, how bout bikes?   I ride an R6 (small, fast, cramped riding position).  Dunno if you've ever seen the mirrors on an R6 but they aint exactly the biggest or widest ever fitted to a bike, in fact in a winter jacket I have to move an arm outta the way to see behind.  So it's much easier sometimes just to look........and I can happily look behind me with a full face helmet on without taking my hands off the bars.

Now what's your point?

 


P.S.  It's 180 degrees ya turn, not 360.  If ya turn your head 360 degrees on a bike, you've just been hit an 18 wheeler.

[hblair]

How do you guys feel about making the six view so you just cant rotate your head endlessly in one direction?

Say, like if ya turn left to look straight back, and ya wanna look out the right side of your plane, you'd have to rotate your head to the right to see out your right side instead of just further left. This is what I'm talking about.

[Ripsnort]

I prefer an enemy that *knows* that I'm jumping him, anything less is like shooting carp in a barrel.

[Eagler]

no thanks,I die enough as it is  

[Duckwing6]

I fly planes .. i can look out the back  

ergo

N O

[Westy MOL]

Kweassa, the first picture, the one you think is too liberal, IS the view you get in an F4U when sitting in the cockpit. It's not a P-51D view but it has a very good rear view.

 I DO think the ability to go from the 7 view to the five by way of the 6 view is wrong. I do think some cockpits are a bit liberal in extending ones head. Otherwise you folks who think WWII pilots were nailed to thier seat backs from the shoulders on down are imagining things.

 I vote NO for the same reasons as has been already stated very well by several in this topic.

 Westy

[gatt]

Heya Duck,
can you do it even when tightly strapped in your belts? I can do it while flying lazily during a cross country, when I can adjust belts and release them a little. However, I cant do it while performing loops, barrel rolls, hammer-heads ... even spins in a CAP10, tightly strapped like a "salame"   Can you?

[Vermillion]

no, No, and NO again

I do get to vote 3 times right? Cause I'm special  

The "six view" purists tend to neglect the fact that you have peripheral vision in real life, and that you can very legitamately loosen your shoulder harness to lean forward to see the six view they want to abolish.

And yes I know, because I have done it in a AT-6 Texan while flying aerobatics up to 5 G's.

[lazs1]

Of course no,   What a silly suggestion.  
lazs

[Dowding]

I was taking the P, Swoop.   WW2OL view system is rubbish, as you probably know.

And I say NO! to this poll.

[Apache]

No.

[ghostdancer]

I vote NOfor removing the six view.

Quite a few planes back then had mirrors on them so the pilot could look up and get some sort of view of their six by looking into a mirror. Yes, it was still partially obstructed, like AH is, but this notion that WW2 pilots were never able to partically check their six is unfounded.

Even the clear bubble canopy mustangs had mirrors mounted to better enable a pilot to quickly check his six.

If you want to say you would rather have a mirror mounted check six view for planes (narrow mirror view) .. well that is something different all together.

[ 11-06-2001: Message edited by: GhstDncr ]

[Hooligan]

No.  I vote that we let people choose not to look backwards if they don't want to.

Hooligan

[popeye]

No.