Cool picture of Erla Haube!

[whgates3]

maybe luftwaffe pilots did neck yoga to get Xtra good 6 views via superior german flexability - i know Gregory Boyington said that he could tense up his Xtra good neck muscles (whcih he got from wrestling) to avoid high-G blackouts (tense neck muscles kept the blood from draining out)

[Don]

Kweassa:

I understand your point. I think this could be easily rectified and still give a nod to the realism gods, by adding the effect that mirrors would give. In another sim I flew, this is the accomodation the developers came up with, and it looked pretty cool, as well as being functional.

[AKSWulfe]

Most experienced fighter pilots flew with their shoulder straps/harnessess loose so they COULD crane their neck and move their upper torso around a  little.

The views may be too lenient, but the more recently done ones (where they did a more realistic limit of how far you can move your head) are about what I'd expect.
-SW

[Kweassa]

Swulfe, I think you are right. I also noticed the recently released planes have a lot more strict limits to the extent of head movements.