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Old 05-08-2010, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Pursuivant View Post
Great work, thanks for all you've done.

Three requests, one tiny, two more involved:

1) Please correct the default early war U.S. markings. They are historically incorrect and ugly as well.

2) Please incorporate some method of determining the G forces on the pilot (if not the plane). As it stands, you don't know how many Gs you're pulling until your plane stalls or you start to black out. Human beings are quite good at detecting changes in acceleration, and a trained pilot can estimate approximately how many Gs he's pulling. "Seat of the pants" flying depends on feeling such changes in G forces.

At the very least, consider it as an option for the "no cockpit" view, which already gives you a nice little graphic which shows the orientation of your plane with respect to the earth (That is, a "gravity meter" which always tells you which way is down.)

3) Would it be possible to make the "tracking arrows" which are visible in the no-cockpit view an option which can be turned on or off for ANY cockpit view? For example, "no cockpit" + "no tracking arrows" or "cockpit view" + "tracking arrows."

+1
And add my thanks. What I like of the Pursuivant’s post, is the use of the word “option”.
Reading through all the threads, you rarely see common visions and shared opinions. Any change is destined to make some people happy and some other people unhappy, but to add options will be good for everyone.
An example? I don’t like the “propeller effect” just in front of windshield. As a private pilot, I’ve flown many different single-engine planes, and the propeller becomes (faintly) visible only in particular lighting conditions, and under particular sunlight angles. If there would be the option, I surely would turn OFF the propeller effect.

Last edited by Furio; 05-08-2010 at 01:32 PM.