FOV settings

[Artist]

Originally Posted by McFeckit

I simply want to see the world as a real spitfire pilot would see it....so which FOV should I use?

You'd have to find someone who would let you fly in his real spitfire for that - in other words (assuming you've got no pilot license and a close friend entrusting his Spit to you): impossible ...

... if you do not plan (and be able to finance, build, tackle) a 360° (vertical and horizontal) translucent plexiglas dome with a battery of beamers - and even then it's not the same.

The used FOV is a matter of compromise of realism and feasibility: A 19" rectangle (your monitor) at 1m distance would show (in real life) little more than the sight (try with 20°-30°). That does not make sense at all. The pilot could see the temperature gauges in the lower right corner with a flick of his eyes (not moving the head at all), we - with Freetrack or TrackIR on a 27" monitor - have to move the head.

Go with what you are comfortable with to be able to control the plane, find the enemy, and hit him.

Artist

[McFeckit]

Thanks for your reply Artist. I feel I should have been more specific. I would like to see the outside world, I.e. the world outside the cockpit, to a correct scale as if I was sitting in a spitfire. For example, if a 109 is 200m away in front of my cockpit then I would like to see that 109 rendered to scale such that it woke look the same size as if I was actually sitting in a spit in real life.

I'm at a loss to explain myself more clearly.

Thanks in advance for any light you or anyone else could shed.