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Title: P38 and view
Post by: straffo on February 26, 2005, 07:43:13 AM

How do you maintain good SA with this plane ?

Coming from the A8/Typhoon I find the view extremly limited.


Anyone can post  films ?

Title: P38 and view
Post by: DamnedRen on February 26, 2005, 07:57:46 AM

Have you manually adjusted all of your views in the plane.
Not just look back? You will find that using the up and down arrow keys you can remove most of the obstructions.

Ren

Title: P38 and view
Post by: straffo on February 26, 2005, 08:04:37 AM

All my view are setup to maximase visibility but I can't stop rolling left and right just to see

Visibility is IMO worst than the F4U1

Title: P38 and view
Post by: Zaphod on February 26, 2005, 11:49:05 AM

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Originally posted by straffo
All my view are setup to maximase visibility but I can't stop rolling left and right just to see

Visibility is IMO worst than the F4U1

When I fly the 38 I am also constantly rolling to see.  I think that is just kinda part of flying the 38.  There is no way to avoid it as the wings and engines really obstruct side view.  It helped my SA in the other planes too actually (to have flown the 38 for a month).

Zaphod

Title: P38 and view
Post by: DamnedRen on February 26, 2005, 01:18:33 PM

"All my view are setup to maximase visibility but I can't stop rolling left and right just to see

Visibility is IMO worst than the F4U1"

Hmmm, you mean you don't roll your wings to look down?
How do you know if you behind him or he's behind you using your 3-9 line?

Title: P38 and view
Post by: Ecliptik on February 27, 2005, 01:44:08 AM

This is simply a disadvantage of the plane.  You adjust all views to maximize visibility, and just learn to live with it.  

If I have an alt advantage entering a busy engagement, I'll sometimes approach inverted.  :)

Title: P38 and view
Post by: pellik on February 27, 2005, 03:01:22 PM

All the problems with the big engines blocking your view is, IMO, completely compensated by being able to see your low 6 out the back.

-pellik

Title: P38 and view
Post by: wetrat on February 27, 2005, 03:17:06 PM

solution for poor SA in a 38: fly into the middle of a furball at 2k and be confident that they're EVERYWHERE. Or get used to wiggling around to see stuff... I do that in every plane...

Title: P38 and view
Post by: Ecliptik on February 27, 2005, 04:47:14 PM

Just thank God this isn't the Il-2 series with the damn unmovable head position.  I hate that.

Title: P38 and view
Post by: Ack-Ack on March 01, 2005, 11:41:17 PM

straffo if you want to see how I have my views setup in the P-38, give me your email and I'll send you my view files so you can check them out.



ack-ack

Title: P38 and view
Post by: straffo on March 02, 2005, 12:46:55 AM

It's very nice , thank Ack-Ack
my email is

fdejagerremovethis@cegetel.net

Title: P38 and view
Post by: gofaster on March 02, 2005, 09:08:15 AM

Rolling to see around the engine nacelles is an advantage. Yesterday I inadvertantly avoided enemy aircraft diving to attack me because I was rocking my wings to see what was going on below me.

Title: P38 and view
Post by: Guppy35 on March 02, 2005, 02:07:14 PM

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Originally posted by gofaster
Rolling to see around the engine nacelles is an advantage. Yesterday I inadvertantly avoided enemy aircraft diving to attack me because I was rocking my wings to see what was going on below me.

Yep, always rocking the 38 back and forth to see what's going on.  It becomes second nature.

Dan/Slack

Title: P38 and view
Post by: Ack-Ack on March 03, 2005, 01:28:18 AM

The only time you'll see me flying level is when I'm AFK.  My squad mates wonder what I've been smoking because when they wing with me, I'm always flying a zig zag pattern so I can see what's going on.  Fly the P-38 for any amount of time and you'll find yourself doing the same thing.



ack-ack