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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Xjazz on March 22, 2001, 08:08:00 AM

Title: Gyro sights? How they work?
Post by: Xjazz on March 22, 2001, 08:08:00 AM

Does anybody know some site where I can find more info about gyro sights?

Is it like early days HUD or what?

Xjazz

Title: Gyro sights? How they work?
Post by: Andy Bush on March 22, 2001, 08:14:00 AM

 http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/air_combat/guns3/guns3.shtml (http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/air_combat/guns3/guns3.shtml)

Scroll down to the section on 'Disturbed Reticle Sights'.

Read the first two articles also for more background info.

Andy

Title: Gyro sights? How they work?
Post by: MiG Eater on March 22, 2001, 01:21:00 PM

Gyro sights work extremely well for tracking shots where you have a steady tracking solution and an accurate range.

Disturbed reticle gunsights are not HUDs in definition.  Alone, they provide no displays pertaining to the performance of the aircraft you are flying.  A HUD generally provides some of the "head down" information obtained from the cockipt instrumentation and displays it to the pilot through the combiner glass.  The early gyro sights (the US' K14b, for instance) were strictly mechanical and provided no means for displaying anything but the actual projected sight image.

MiG