Author Topic: How accurate is AH to the real thing... (Read 189 times)

muckmaw · « **on:** November 10, 2002, 05:00:33 PM »

The cockpit of a real F6F Hellcat:

muckmaw · « **Reply #1 on:** November 10, 2002, 05:01:28 PM »

Continued:

Innominate · « **Reply #2 on:** November 10, 2002, 05:03:19 PM »

Is that the original handle on the hellcat stick?

GScholz · « **Reply #3 on:** November 10, 2002, 05:31:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Innominate
Is that the original handle on the hellcat stick?

My thoughts excactly! Looks more like the stick from an F4 Phantom II.

muckmaw · « **Reply #4 on:** November 10, 2002, 05:41:19 PM »

Not 100% sure. I'll ask the Volunteer who was actually an F6F pilot when I see him on Sunday.

I'm sure we have an expert in here that could get us an answer though. It looks awefully modern.

Matt1221b · « **Reply #5 on:** November 10, 2002, 05:42:41 PM »

that looks like an F16 stick glued onto it and made so it looks like the real thing, but they definatly didnt have that stick on it

whats this post about anyway....no1 answered if they thought it was like the real thing or not...huh

Sandman · « **Reply #6 on:** November 10, 2002, 06:04:24 PM »

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Originally posted by GScholz
My thoughts excactly! Looks more like the stick from an F4 Phantom II.

That's what I thought also... here is an F4:

Xjazz · « **Reply #7 on:** November 11, 2002, 02:29:07 AM »

Just look Bf109, La5, IL2, Fw190 in Aces High and IL2 Sturmovik and you allready have somekind answer about accurancy.

wklink · « **Reply #8 on:** November 11, 2002, 09:15:34 AM »

Yeah, more accurate cockpits would be nice. I flew some in Fighter Ace III and the cockpits look closer to the real thing than AH or Warbirds does. I still like AH better though, the flight models, the community and the game all around seemed better.

As long as the download footprint can be kept something reasonable for those players with 56k modems I am all for it. If not, it really doesn't kill the immersion for me.

lazs2 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 11, 2002, 10:05:37 AM »

since it is much harder for our "vision" to take in the guages... I like ther way AH makes it so that no plane has too much of a "guage view" advantage.
lazs

Turbot · « **Reply #10 on:** November 11, 2002, 10:08:24 AM »

In our game realism should not overshadow function. Warbirds went down this path - to the extreme you can't read many of the guages at all due to pixels available to render them.

udet · « **Reply #11 on:** November 11, 2002, 11:56:09 AM »

that's true. even if AH's cockpits are not exactly like the real thing, the gauges are readable and that's whay counts most on a computer screen

bj229r · « **Reply #12 on:** November 11, 2002, 07:25:48 PM »

cc that..in WB the 109 had meters and liters..GREAT...now i need to consult an fluff'n calculator while i fight...