Propeller IS visible ...

[Lensman_1]

I happened to lean out of the side of an open canopied Spitfire today, looking forward and there was my propeller, clearly visible as a spinning disc with yellow tips. Leaning back in it became barely visible. I think this looks accurate and it most definitely IS there.

[Strike]

it's always been there to me. Sometimes when you have the sun at your 6 you'll see the disc brighten up since it's reflecting the light. Propeller looks like it should, nearly invisible. In real life, you can't make it out as a moving item unless it's at low RPM and you're shifting view in the direction of the top blade. (Ever noticed that when staring at a helicopter looking dead center you can't really see the blades too defined, but if you start following the blade tip in it's rotation you can briefly make out the blade as your eyeball moves)..

Anyways, I think they look PERFECT

[scissorss]

Originally Posted by Strike

Anyways, I think they look PERFECT

I agree.

[Prop~Strike]

Originally Posted by scissorss

I agree.

I agree also.... looks good to me. I hope they don't go changing them just because people who have only seen spinning props on tv/film thinks that's how they're supposed to look.

[SG1_Lud]

Originally Posted by Prop~Strike

I agree also.... looks good to me. I hope they don't go changing them just because people who have only seen spinning props on tv/film thinks that's how they're supposed to look.

+1 man,
yesterday one of my mates was complaining because "the view was not shakeing when firing, like the gun cams"

[White Owl]

Fun fact for the day: the closer you are to a spinning propeller, the more difficult it is to see. When you look at a distant airplane, its prop will be more easily visible than the prop spinning just five feet in front of your face.

And concerning the yellow tips... I don't know so much about how various forces of WWII may have painted their props, but nowadays the common practice is to paint the side facing the pilot a uniform flat black, precisely to make it less visible, less chance of distraction. Only the side facing away from the pilot is painted with stripes at the tips to make the prop more visible to ground crew.

The only time I ever saw the propeller while piloting small aircraft was when I forgot to turn off the wingtip strobe lights before entering a cloud.