I envision a powerful black and brutal aiframe!
I question how the top turret quad fifties will be utilized. In actual operations the turret (when mounted) could be slaved forward at the pilots discretion and used in conjuction with the fixed quad 20s underneath. Obviously the rear radar operator and the forward facing gunner (directly aft of the pilots seat) should have the ability to slew the turret 360 but I hope there is a turret default command allowing the 50s to be fired simultaneously with the 20s when in the fixed forward position by the pilot.
Lastly I envision a command available when in the aft radar ops seat that would bring up a simple circular dark green display (similar to the heads down bombadier view) showing all contacts within a 5 mile radius.
Large dots indicating contacts above and smaller dots indicating contacts lower. In reality the radar system on actual P61s was very weak and the Black Widows required high powered ground based radar to vector the Widows to within close range. Once within a few miles of the contact the P61s radar sufficed to get the P61 close enough to make a visual ID (required during wartime ops) on the target before commencing the attack.
Of course all this depends on whether HTC has the testicualr fortitude
to attempt what has never before been attempted realistically by any online sim developer, ever. Also, my thoughts on the matter are most simple in nature. HTC could probably do a far sight better than what I have envisioned.
I hope they can still build in the periscope aft view on the arado.
Yeager
[ 08-11-2001: Message edited by: Yeager ]
