I haven't tried it but i don't use level stabilizer anymore. It's much more fun to use the real heading hold autopilot.
That being said, we do need an alternative form of control to simulate manual drops in the Luftwaffe bombers and also for bombers that don't have such an autopilot (Blenheim and Br.20).
My suggestion would be to rework the level stabilizer from what it was (an artificial control lock with functioning trim) into a feature that simulates the pilot taking commands from the bombardier. Enabling it would have the aircraft flying straight and level under AI control, while at the same time being possible for the player to give commands to the AI pilot for small course corrections. They might just as well use the existing "course autopilot left/right" commands for this: when the AP is on the commands modify the AP's selected heading to hold, when the reworked level stab is on the same commands tell the AI pilot to turn left/right.
This would not only be useful for all bombers, it would also be a good simulation of how things were done in the real bombers of the time that lacked autopilots: the bombardier was giving course corrections for the pilot during the bomb run.
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09-05-2011, 03:37 PM
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