Friday 2010-10-22 Dev. update and Discussion

[mazex]

Originally Posted by The Kraken

And did they operate those with a mouse?

And did they have a plastic cone like the ones sick dogs have with 70 degrees vision of the world with a pixelation raster attached to it?

In a real plane you take a microsecond glimpse down at the temp meter and then look ahead... You reach for the gear lever,throttle or flaps without even looking down, and zeroing the altimeter is done in a second. Being on final having to "look down" and messing around with the mouse to go to full flaps when in danger of overshooting the runway is a no no for me immersion wise... Having said that I understand that some people like it, probably the persons that think that "full real" is imposing that completely unrealistic cone on your head instead of allowing padlock etc to overcome the problems of simulating the impressive control a real person has of his head and vision with 180+ degrees of FOV (for motions at least).

For me, I play games like IL2 to simulate WWII dogfighting and I like it best on the servers that even allow external views but with good missions like UK Dedicated 1. For "full real" I go fly for real instead...