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Old 10-09-2010, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by SlipBall View Post
Your post seem's a bit odd to me, the goggles look to be perfectly centered and square to the pilots face. Regarding the mask, unless at 10,000 feet and above, there is no need for it. And would therefore be an option for the pilot...I still hope for a pure positive reaction from you one of these weeks, I know that you mean well, but the goggles are not worn low in that shot.

You have completely misread my post mate
Firstly, the goggles position is fine. But a pilot would be a bit of a dunce if he chose to wear his goggles down like this. By all means they might have liked to have done this, but it would distort vision and be a general nuisance.
Indeed, the pilot here has no mask connected to his helmet. It's possible it's hanginge from one of the lengths of the wiring loom, but it'd be a bitch to put on if he chose to go to a higher altitude.
Generally, I have only seen a couple of pictures of pilots wearing their goggles down like this. It's quite rare for the reasons I previously stated.
Even the lack of an oxygen mask is rare. Even if he had no need for oxygen, the mask contains the microphone. This pilot may be testing a larangyphone (sorry, I know I've spelt this wrong) but I doubt that.
He may be using gosport tubes, but again I doubt this too. So this pilot seems to be using no microphone, and there are no visible wires going into his b-type helmet to show that he has the c-type radio eaerphones installed

This may all go over your head mate. This is hardly a neccessity for SoW, but for future patches I think this is quite important. I have supported my criticism with information, but I will add that posting pictures will be hard as there were so many mask/goggle/helmet combinations available (although for this period there were only 4 types of goggles, 1 mask, 1 helmet (I'm not including the 1930 pattern) and 2 mics in use)

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