This is ridiculous. I don't know what is intended or not but it comes across as a VERY CLUMSY attempt to do social engineering. It's hard to imagine that this is unintentional. You have to believe that NO ONE even looked at the TrackIR implementation or understood what they were looking at if they did. I can only move my head an inch and its stuck right next the to armor plate like its glued there. You can't see to the side, you can't see around the armor plate in any plane. In every way the static views work much better.
There is no way in the world that this can be thought to be or intended to be a realistic depiction of the pilot's movement in the cockpit. To say, "Track IR users can now get the full bounds of head movement in all planes" is so far off the mark I feel like we are on different planets.
Just be clear, the attempt here is to provide good feedback for the improvement of the game. I love this game, I love the genre but I can't take the steady diet of absolutely crap changes. I have a subscription so I can blow off steam and do something I enjoy for the weekend. What we seem to be running into is changes that don't improve anything and just make the game worse. It hasn't been fun for the last two months. I'm getting to the end of my rope about logging on and having my blood pressure go through the roof because of another ill thought out, ill tested "improvement". I totally get that you want to make improvements and support that. But if you don't want to run off your player base, they have to work. That means REAL testing, not throw it against the wall and see what falls out.
I'm now ready to try something, anything else that won't make me sick when I fire it up. Please, please please take a look at this.