Gunsight, is it off or is that the dimmest setting?

[palvas]

ALT-L to turn the reticle on

[xnomad]

lol yes I know how to turn it 'on' I'm just wondering why it's light blue when it's 'off' because really if it's off the reticle shouldn't be visible.

[Blackdog_kt]

I think this is covered in the manual, saying that since the light bulbs don't fail like in the real thing there's no need to completely turn it off. In reality they only turned it on for combat to preserve the life of the light bulb, but since this is not modeled in the sim they decided to have it set to its lowest setting by default.

Atl+L switches between 0% and 100% brightness, but if you click and hold on the relevant controls in the cockpit you can adjust it to intermediate values as well (useful if you're flying during early morning/late afternoon, because then 100% is way too bright).

[xnomad]

My God does anyone actually read what I posted?

This isn't a question on how to turn it on. I'm wondering if the default setting is 'off' as surely there shouldn't be a reticle if it's off......

Oh I give up............

[Lixma]

Originally Posted by xnomad

My God does anyone actually read what I posted?

This isn't a question on how to turn it on. I'm wondering if the default setting is 'off' as surely there shouldn't be a reticle if it's off......

Oh I give up............

That's easy. You need to kill the red dragon before you can get the magic armour.

[xnomad]

Originally Posted by Lixma

That's easy. You need to kill the red dragon before you can get the magic armour.

I can't find this in the manual anywhere.

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by palvas

ALT-L to turn the reticle on

So that was the magic button! Thanks (red faced...)

[Cap'n Crunch]

Some reflector sights will cast an image with the bulb off, it all depends on the make, but have seen images on unpowered units.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgLVB0Ghmb0&NR=1

Here's a clip of an unpowered Japanese reflector, you can see there is no bulb lit when he puts the camera above the sight looking into the projector lens. And the reticule reflection image is bluish.

[Pierre@]

Thanks Cap'n Crunch! At last an interesting answer for a good question

[xnomad]

Sweet! Thanks CC; that's the type of reply I was looking for!