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Originally Posted by steppie
shoulder harness don't stop you from moving from side to side and you be surprise on how much you can move in these copit even when you strapped in.
You still able you lean forward to a point and lean side to and look around in the copit. The reason the wore silk scarfs to stop chafing because the had to look around so much and being able to see the enemy first was a life and death struggle for WW2 pilots . Also being able to move around help when it came to looking around copit frames that would get in the way.
here some inflight copit footage of a 109
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Steppie: tightened shoulder harness (if they’re not tight they serve nothing) limit
any movement, period. If that’s not enough, looking at you very interesting movie, you can easily see that the 109’s cockpit is so narrow that cockpit sides block lateral body movement.
Consider also that operational pilots wore cumbersome flight gear, with heavy jacket, mae west, oxygen tubes and radio cables.
All this said, I believe that 6 DOF should be severely restricted to be realistic. But, in the interest of playability and different opinions, some allowance can be considered as an option. Have I already said that I like the word “option”?
06-19-2010, 08:32 AM
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