In CoD's un-shifted view the left-edge of the reflector glass is just millimetres from the centre of the screen.

We are flying with a Cyclops as a pilot. That's why we need this leaning over/Shift-F1 nonsense. None of which is realistic.

If CoD wants to simulate a real pilot with realistic binocular vision then we should get a reticle that was fully visible and appears to float 'outside' of the reflector glass.

Like so....

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4853/109kb.jpg

Uhm, not that I know of. Not identically to IL2. But if you can show me you'll be welcome. But don't talk about the COD default shift+f1 as it is something completely different from old IL2.

@Krupi: guess what, I tried this indeed yesterday, shifting with mouse to set the view. When I go back to trackir I am automatically shifted back to centre cockpit view. It simply does NOT work. So this advice is useless.

Lixma, please go physics and explain it in an understandable way why it should be so. I still don't get it why out of miracle the opposing half of the circle should appear in the middle of nowhere.

Why is that different? When I want to line up behind the sight in IL2 I hit shift/F1. How is it different now?

OK, so it's a TrackIR issue. Is that different from how TrackIR worked in IL2?

Find some clear safety glasses with individual lenses, get a fine tip marker pen and put a small fine cross on the RH lenses about the same diameter in total as 1p coin in line with ware your right eye would be centred, put on the clear safety glasses with the fine cross marked on the RH lenses and tell us what you see - a combined image by your brain.

It is the same “optical brain trick” used by NV/targeting monocles etc used by pilots of e.g. AH-64 or I use to use when I did a lot of shooting with both iron and telescopic sights (you get use to seeing a merged image with the black haze of the outside of the telescopic sights with the left eye which you don’t get with a monocle etc)

I had an Apache HMS post lined up ready to go.

:grin:

Do you ACTUALLY play Cod and try the shift+f1 in both games? Well, obviously not. If you had you would know that in Cod when pressing shift+f1 I can NOT turn my head around and track an enemy. In Il2 I could track an enemy when pressing shift+f1. Go try it yourself.

It's just not that big a deal if some want an easier aiming system. Think about it, Germany was and are brilliant at designing machinery. If the sight wasn't effective and easy to use why would they stick with it. Men did in fact modify their machines in the field. If the British sight as better why not use a captured sight or just move their own?

I don't have the game yet. That's why I'm asking you all these questions. So, the problem is not the location of the sight, the problem is that you can't turn your head when you're in Shift/F1 mode, right?

were the gunsights made by Zeiss?

if so the photography methodology was used... keep both eyes open looking through the view finder