I own TrackIR and honestly can't fly 1946 without it.

A simple turn of the head and you can look wherever you need to....

check out: http://naturalpoint.com/trackir/

Also look for any vids on youtube

And if can't or don't want to afford it: http://www.free-track.net

How TrakID work?You turn your head,"the pilot" turns his head following the movement?
If so,how can you look at bigger angles?

the movement is accelerated -- looking slightly to one side lets you almost check 6

to be honest if my trackIr is not working I just do not bother flying, flying without trackIr is like returning to 1980's Duke Nukum for me these days

Which is all OFF-TOPIC

sooo ... on topic ... will 6DOF support ever happen or are the current cockpits just too patchy ???

DT has said several times that 6DOF will not be implemented in '46, specifically because of the problems with all the 2D cockpits.

To meet their quality standards would require remaking about every cockpit in the sim.

Mistel and ships
 

Dear Team Daidalos!

I know you have your hands full, and I'm not asking for anything to be done right away, merely if something will be possible:

The Mistel parasite was made to attack ships. Unfortunately, due to the damage system of ships in IL2, a well aimed Mistel will just pass through the ship and break appart, to explode on the other side without damaging the ship. The only thing it seems able to do against ships is hitting carriers in the deck area. In-game, we are left with using the Mistel as an over sized bomb against land targets, which are neither historical nor much fun compared to attacking ships.

Would it be possible to have a look at how the Mistel's payload work, so that the nose section function like a bomb rather than as a plane in-game? Would a possible solution be to for example program the game to handle the charge as a bomb that is released and explodes when the Mistel hits something? The Mistel is a very exiting plane, and hunting ships with it (like it was intended to do) would be a great boon for the offline community.

I may have mentioned this earlier: But it might be a good idea to have strafing and bombing behaviours be dependent on waypoint altitude (much as level bombing and dive bombing behaviours are already). This could deal with the complaint of B-25's strafing inappropriately.

It could also lead the way to letting AI gunners strafe (assuming that they aren't Il-2 gunners - who have too little ammunition for this behaviour)

There is a reason why the He-111 carried its heaviest weapon firing forward:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuMhpx2u3a0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH3Hu...A0A51DFF5F17A2

Maybe TD could make tracks exportable to format which could be interpreted by other programs? I.e. by TacView (http://lomac.strasoftware.com/tacview-en.php), which is used for analyzing LockOn/DCS tracks now. That would make teaching novice pilots a lot easier.

However, I think it should be taken with care. It should export only those track, which are allowed to be exported. Some server option is needed, which would allow or deny such exports, so that people could not abuse such tracks in virtual wars.

The night of IL2.
In european IL2 maps you can see a weak sunlight coming from the horizon.
Is that midnight sun?
If so,it shouldn´t happen on western european maps (except Norway and Finland) and Mediterranean maps?

Requesting- Pitch
 

I was wondering if in the patch we could get the ability to pitch our guns along with what we already have in convergence.

Thanks