BF109 - Can't we just have the gunsight in the middle?

[Lixma]

Originally Posted by heloguy

If you lean at all to the left, though, it should not be very far before the image would disappear.

Yeah, the reticle should still appear/disappear due to G-forces on the pilot during manoeuvring.

Originally Posted by heloguy

The mount you showed does seem to have a telescoping piece, but I wonder exactly what it would be for. It's certainly not made for making fine adjustments and then being fixed in place. It looks like it only adjusts from one extreme to another.

That sounds reasonable. I'd never actually seen one before I found those pictures so I'm not certain how it was used. On the other hand the ability to adjust, even crudely, the range of the gunsight from the pilots' eyes would be very useful.