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Hello everyone, here’s a suggestion to add a little first-person immersion for aircraft pilots.
Since the dawn of aviation, whether civil or military, pilots have always faced a problem: how to have all the information about their mission, the weather, or their allies within their cockpit.
To achieve this, the first pilots carried paper maps on board their aircraft to navigate using terrain details, or they had notebooks in their aircraft with various details to help them carry out their missions.
Since the Cold War, as technology evolved and the first MFDs appeared, pilots lost the need to have maps on board their aircraft (although it’s still used today). However, as missions became increasingly complex (pooling multiple aircraft, identification codes between aircraft, etc.), pilots adopted different systems to access this information (originally paper notes and more recently touch tablets).
This is why I am suggesting today the addition of kneebords that have been found on most pilot legs since the second World War.
But what is the point of adding these information notes in the game ?
The benefit of adding this type of information sheet would be to improve immersion for pilots, as this sheet could provide various useful information in-game.
This information could include, for example:
- Various information about the aircraft: fuel and weapons carried, total weight, maximum flight duration, etc.
- A simplified version of the map (non-zoomed version with some of the details of the game such as the position of allied airfields)
- The various missions to be accomplished, such as static points of interest (bases to destroy, bot fights)
- The designations of friendly or enemy aircraft (for example, which aircraft correspond to the numbers on the Scorpion HMD display, what the RWR indications correspond to or what the radar’s NCTR indications correspond to).
It would be interesting in-game to have the possibility of choosing what we want to display on this tablet, so that each player would have the possibility of having the information that is most interesting to them at their fingertips.
In-game, a large majority of aircraft pilots could be equipped with these kneeboards. Indeed, since they first appeared during World War II, most aircraft can be equipped with them.
Below are various systems used by pilots over the years, from the wooden board during World War II to the electronic tablet today.
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Overall, this addition wouldn’t change the gameplay of the game but would greatly improve player immersion, especially in battle simulator mode. This would add the possibility of not having to open the various menus to access information.
Tell me what you think about this suggestion.