Second Crosshair in Cockpit mode

[Armchairpilot]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

The sight your talking about, is called a "Ring and Post". They were just a back-up sight for the pilot if the reflector sight quit working for whatever reason. P-51s, P-47s, P-40s etc. etc. all had "Ring and Post" sights. So in game, unless they added the affect of the reflector sight going out, then the "Ring and Post" sight is just useless.

Cool. Thanks. I thought it could either be a backup or a bomb sight, or something along those lines.

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

And what I do to compensate for the Soviet fighters reflector sight. Just get in close enough to the enemy, that you can just open up. I always fill my sight with my enemies plane. Then I just let loose!! And another way of getting the Soviet fighters sights to work, is using the zoom. Then the little bars aren't so thick, and you can deflect better.

Though I've already seemed to have mastered the way of deflection without having to zoom.

I just can't imagine what the reason behind making the sights like this in the real planes was. Especially since the "Circle with a dot" that the Americans and British used is , in my opinion, perfect.

But it's really cool to actually be in these cockpits. Documentries on planes don't usually show you what the cockpits look like and it's shocking to see how much of a difference little things like a bubble canopy and a good gunsight make.

Can't wait for the German cockpits.