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Old 05-07-2008, 08:49 AM
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I'm also trying this, but I'm sitting in a bucket-seat with a head-rest while wearing aviator-style goggles and a leather flying-helmet of the type shown in the original IL2 artwork. It doesn't matter whether I pull the goggles up and perch them on my forehead, or wear them as for action; and it doesn't matter how slack I simulate my seat-straps to be - I can really only just make the 90 degree vertical view. It's actually incredibly uncomfortable to do this - and much easier to turn my head from side to side as one would naturally do in flight.

Coming up the years, with my flying helmet replaced by a "jet-style" open-faced crash helmet, it becomes even harder to manage the 90 degree, vertical look-up. The helmet straps cut into my throat, my scarf rides up out of my flight suit and won't go back in place when I lower my head again, and so on. When tried in this way it becomes clear that the modelling is not so far off at all as far as a simulation is concerned.

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