Ok, was talking again today to one of my friends. He said that tunnel vision and grey out were fairly common, but a complete black out was not. Also that if you were not being persued all you had to do was push forward and very quickly you would regain your normal vision. Sometimes in AH it seems to take forever to regain your vision if you are going fast, even when you do this manouver.
Do i think Kesmai et all "have been screwing us all these years"? No I just think in there zeal to try to be realistic they overdid things.
Maybe I am a little hard on the stick here, but compared to what? Why shouldn't the stick input be callibrated in the sim so that every tiny input doesn't result in black out.
FYI there is an article on Combatsim.com of a number of interviews with Viper pilots who talk about pulling 9 Gs routinely with very little problems. Yes they wear G suits and grunt and are physicly fit, but the G suits are said to boost most pilots resistance to forces by only about 1 G. Russians don't even bother with them! The key apparently is conditioning and experiance, now wouldn't it be logical to give us ALL the benefit of the doubt, that we are conditioned as anybody.
Email me if you want the URL to that article or just search Blackouts at
www.combatsim.com. The gunshake thing, I did say that yes the a/c does shake, no arguement there. But like you say some aircraft have had to be modified because of too much vibration. More than likely tho this was because the structure of the particular a/c was not designed to cope with it and would probably break the plane up.
And if it is the case that some shake relative to thier armament why do all the a/c in AH seem to shake to the same degree, 50 cals on the P51 the same as the Cannon and machine gun cmbo of the spit? Well maybe that's because it's just beta...
But anyway, if I watch gun camera footage and detect little vibration and shake, then imagine what a pilot sees. The pilot has a definate advantage over a camera, no matter how well it's mounted I suspect. Your eyeballs and your neck and brain have the ability to "filter out" or adjust to those sorts of things in anything but the most extreme of cases.
Btw, these WWII a/c guns where not comparable to something like the 30mm gattleing gun on the A-10. The rate and weight of fire between the two is WAY different.
Tally Ho
I really like this sim, IMHO it's the best there is and for the most part I love it, I just want to see the most truly realistic experiance possible. Short of actually dieing when I crash ;-)
[This message has been edited by fyterjock (edited 11-18-1999).]
