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Originally Posted by Fearfactor (Post 172575)

As many people know, IL2 has always used true or 'geographical' north for the compass to point to. But of course it's unrealistic as compasses point to the magnetic north. This was due to making the game engine more simplified and therefore one less thing to process, not that it could not have been done for IL2 a long time ago. It is a lot more complicated to have the magnetic north modeled, no doubt. Since there is a good bit of variation that changes as one moves east to west. Anyone know if SOW will use magnetic or true north??

I'd love to see this feature also. X-plane has it, though without time variation IIRC. IMO it's good enough.

One of my customers was a navigator on a B25 during and after WWII in the pacific. He speaks often of navigating by the stars when he could, mostly to verify his position that he had already figured out by other means. He was very glad to have this tool on long ferry trips with bomb bay tanks from Japan to Hawaii. "Midway is a very small target in a very big ocean when your tanks are running dry and there ain't no place else to go"

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Originally Posted by jameson (Post 172749)

Surely it was cloudy and over cast on July 11th 1940?

Thursday 11 July 1940,
Overcast in the south
Thunder with sunny spells elsewhere.

Anyway, I'll bring my Whitley over the top :grin:

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