Regarding the bail out animations in IL-2
Bailout is already more immersive than 1946 in the manner that you need two steps to perform a bailout, 1 : Open/Jettison canopy, 2: Bail out.
I think one thing that would make the bailout more immersive to me right now is if the pilot wasn't in a spread-eagle stance, but rather a more tumbling fashion. Like a bag of potatoes just tumbling through the air. The spread eagle just looks like a rotating skydiver. Skydivers and bailed out crew are not the same :p If I am not mistaking, the harness of the chute is so tight, a pilot can't actually fully stretch out. At least that is the case with modern day ejection seat harnesses. Last thing pilot does is fasten his harness properly before climbing into the cockpit, because it cripples him from moving properly.
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