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Title: Film viewer control inputs?
Post by: Simaril on October 30, 2005, 07:25:38 AM

Is there a way to see what control inputs are being made during a film? I want to get as much as I can from the great examples the community's provided, and if I could see HOW the reversal move was made, how hard the rudder kicked on the rope, etc -- it would be a great help to my concrete, 3-D inhibited brain.

Title: Film viewer control inputs?
Post by: Schatzi on October 30, 2005, 08:00:36 AM

First of all, you can only see the control input for the plane the film was recorded in. But for those, i think more or less all information can be seen.

Throttle management: Watch the rpm/MP gauges and check the speed.

Rudder: Check the slip ball (it indicates the G-forces along the 3-9 line of the plane, ie the forces applied sideways)

Aileron/elevator: Self explanatory i guess ;).

Watch the film with 'use recorded views'.



What i do when i want to analyse a film is first watch the fight with icon/trails/recorded views and external view. (Sometimes even fixed view).
When i got a good idea of whats happening in the film, i watch it again using internal and recorded view. That way i see what the pilot saw during the fight. (BTW, you can move and save your headposition in film viewer same as you can ingame)

Title: Film viewer control inputs?
Post by: TequilaChaser on October 30, 2005, 08:53:09 AM

Schatzi purtty much nailed this one down :aok

Title: Film viewer control inputs?
Post by: Simaril on October 30, 2005, 09:06:32 AM

Thanks Schatzi -- didnt occur to me to use the instruments as indirect indicators. (Like I said, concrete thinker at times...lol)


I use the same view patterns, external/fixed/trail then internal.

Good ideas all around -- thanks again!