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[SAS~CirX]

For interest, here is the real deal, and I can vouch for the accuracy of it, cause I took the picture. I took as guide for the new possition, the angle of the gunsightmount. Note, the gunsight in IL2 is also too far left. Will fix that in a future update.

You will notice that one can see the nose in the real view, but not in my new view. This is because of the over thick frames of the glass in IL2 obscuring it (and yes, before you ask, that is the proper thick armored glass you are looking at there. Ain't refraction a bitch!



Unzip and put the folder inside , called "CP Me-262" in your mods folder.

https://storebror.it.cx/sas/archive/sasdl/WIP/Cirx_CP_Me-262.zip

[Slow]

Probably this doesn't matter, but aren't you sitting in a Me 262 B on the picture? Wouldn't that change the cockpit framing a bit?

Slow.

[SAS~CirX]

No, the windscreen is the same.

[neuro]

wtf? you have an me262 in your back yard?

[Sir_Galahad]

He CirX, that makes me curious too! How it came you found yourself seated in the Schwalbe? I believe there are only some 10 of the original Stormbird still around in the world! Even if it is a long story, it would be interesting...

[SAS~CirX]

It is a long story.

The basics is that, I am an (ex) amateur historian, but because of some stuff, I am known to some restorers and collectors and writers around the world, and they ask me for things sometimes. I did a photo report on the 262 B1a U1 at the JHB war museum some years ago, and was the one who named her "Ursula". I built a good raport with the museum at that stage and was later asked to re-investigate the operational histories of some of their WW2 german planes, especially the Fw190, after a poem in pencil was found inside her fuselage (not widely public information, and I was asked less for being a researcher than for having contacts in the music world). It was with the Fw190 that I got pulled into IL2 world by a mutual friend with Oleg, about the whole refraction debacle(the bar).

And then a while after that, and after helping with investigations into the fuelpipe system, for the stormbirds project and a historian attached to that, and helping with a book for modelers on the 262 with Jozef Andal from Poland, I was called on the day they moved her into storage for the new buildings to go up there, to go help figure out how to unlock her frontwheel steering. It was on this day I took that photo.

I am most famous for once being stung repeatedly by a family of wasps while climbing into her wheelwell for a photo. It hurt like hell, but, who else can say they were stung by wasps who live in a Me262  I am most proud of not dropping the camera. 

[SAS~CirX]

I took this picture on the day of the move, it is the best picture of a bunch of engineers and curators totally stumped about how to unlock that frontwheel.

[Hylo]

CirX, wouldn't the pilot's viewpoint be a biiit higher than your photo because he was sat on a parachute? Not as high as the original, of course. Just wondering.

[SAS~CirX]

Sorry, I expressed myself poorly. What I meant with "original pillow", was a cussion about the same height as a parachute, so it was taken into the account . (would be a very rookie mistake to forget the parachute )

[Hylo]

I wondered whether that was what you meant by 'original' pillow! Those are definitely some cool photos, anyway.

[GOZR]

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[stansdds]

Sorry, I expressed myself poorly. What I meant with "original pillow", was a cussion about the same height as a parachute, so it was taken into the account . (would be a very rookie mistake to forget the parachute )

Guess that would depend upon how many missions you plan to complete, now wouldn't it? 

Perspective is something that sometimes seems to be lost when it comes to virtual cockpit design.  Replicating a 3 dimensional world on a 2 dimensional computer monitor also presents challenges.