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Title: please fix the backlit clipboard
Post by: caldera on March 17, 2014, 06:03:56 PM
The clipboard is blindingly translucent.  Please fix this.


(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/sun.jpg~original) (http://s343.photobucket.com/user/caldera_08/media/sun.jpg.html)
 
Title: Re: please fix the backlit clipboard
Post by: The Fugitive on March 17, 2014, 09:09:04 PM
It's suppose to be, so you can't use it to hide the sun. Just flip to a different view while you look at it while heading into the sun.
Title: Re: please fix the backlit clipboard
Post by: caldera on March 17, 2014, 10:34:39 PM
It's suppose to be, so you can't use it to hide the sun. Just flip to a different view while you look at it while heading into the sun.

That's silly.  Who told you that?
Title: Re: please fix the backlit clipboard
Post by: danny76 on March 18, 2014, 03:02:29 AM
Yeah. I heard that too. Been brought up before. This needs fixing, I can't believe that its like this because hitec wants us to suffer a severe retinal roasting when flying east-west :headscratch:
Title: Re: please fix the backlit clipboard
Post by: The Fugitive on March 18, 2014, 08:02:11 AM
In the old days it was very easy to shrink down the note book and put it over the sun. It acted like the framework of the cockpit and blocked the sun very well.

Move your head to get frameworks in the way. Or turn your view to look at your map.
Title: Re: please fix the backlit clipboard
Post by: BluBerry on March 18, 2014, 11:14:07 AM
The clipboard is blindingly translucent.  Please fix this.


(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/sun.jpg~original) (http://s343.photobucket.com/user/caldera_08/media/sun.jpg.html)
 

it just aids in keeping our game looking like chit.
Title: Re: please fix the backlit clipboard
Post by: 100Coogn on March 18, 2014, 01:10:00 PM
Maybe real pilots used the clipboard to block the sun.  We do have sunvisors in our cars & trucks nowdays...

Coogan
Title: Re: please fix the backlit clipboard
Post by: Hoplite on March 19, 2014, 07:51:31 AM
I agree it's kinda silly the clipboard doesn't block light but it's a very minor issue.    Nothing is stopping anyone from flying or looking away from the sun.  Alternatively, reposition the plane slightly so a canopy bar blocks the light. 



Title: Re: please fix the backlit clipboard
Post by: danny76 on March 19, 2014, 08:24:47 AM
Or, as has been asked for a thousand times, give the option for toggling sunglasses, carried by all aircrew in ww2 :old:
Title: Re: please fix the backlit clipboard
Post by: Hoplite on March 19, 2014, 08:51:24 AM
Or, as has been asked for a thousand times, give the option for toggling sunglasses, carried by all aircrew in ww2 :old:

Only if they are stylish and go with my toupee.   :D
Title: Re: please fix the backlit clipboard
Post by: Les Paul on March 21, 2014, 10:18:17 PM
Man, why are you guys flying straight at the sun anyway? Shouldn't you be ducking and weaving? I almost never look out the front of my plane, unless there is a target there. Flying into the sun doesn't bother me because I am constantly looking forward right, right, back right, upper forward right, upper right, upper back right, and the opposite when I am leaning the other direction.

Lazy players, stop using autoclimb/level/etc. Those are for going AFK!

It's almost as bad as the people who dive in a nice straight line at a field and complain they get ack'ed.