Originally posted by BD:
RAM,
As far as I know, the only combat aircraft to be equiped with a pressurized cockpit were B-29s. In any event, none of the planes in the current AH set had anything even remotely like a pressurized cockpit.
Having personally flown at 36,000 MSL in an unpressurized glider, I can happily report that my blood did not boil. My vario (VSI)at that point was still reading a 500 ft per minute climb, but I elected to stop the ascent due to the lack of an emergency bailout bottle.
Nice view from up there, though.
BTW, the record altitude for a glider (non-pressurized, of course) is in the range of 49,000 feet. There is no dispute that the pilot reached that altitude, only whether it consitutes a record as he did it without clearance from ATC.
In any event, Pyro agreed that the amount of available oxygen in these planes precluded its being included as an aspect of the game.
See http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/Forum1/HTML/004648.html
[This message has been edited by BD (edited 08-07-2000).]
I think RAM was getting at the precentage of us that fly nekkid with open cockpits
But givin insulated clothing, cabin heaters, and wind shielding fighter pilots had at least adequate protection in the later part of the war. Bomber crews are another story though, they only had clothing to protect them (and some did have wind sheilding)
- Jig
