Here’s some inaccuracies in some Chinese fighter aircraft cockpits.
A-5C Fantan
Cockpit is not translated
The Pakistan Air force, in real life, had the cockpit translated to English. It is almost the same as the F-6C’s English translated cockpit with, obviously, differences due to the airframe itself being different. This should be made accurate to real life.
A-5C cockpit
F-6C cockpit
Ejection seat is not accurate in cockpit view
The A-5 in real life uses the Martin Baker ejection seat, which is the one as seen in 3rd person view. However this isn’t the one in cockpit view. Please fix this.
Ejection has not been implemented
While most other fighters in this game with ejection seats can be ejected from now, the A-5 still does not have this feature. Please add it.
Pilot models are wrong for both the A-5C and F-6C
In real life, the Pakistan Air Force uses Western flight gear, and it did so on the A-5 and F-6 too. Please change the pilot models on these two aircraft to the Western pilot model that can be seen on aircraft like the F-14 and F-16, in the images below.
Tail-hook feature has not been implemented
As tail-hooks have been implemented for non-naval aircraft in the game for usage, please also add that feature onto the A-5, as it has one as well.
JF-17 Thunder
HUD measurement units are wrong
The JF-17 in real life under Pakistan Air Force service uses Knots, Feet and Pounds for speed, altitude and weight measurements respectively. However in War Thunder, the HUD displays these units in KM/H, Meters, and Kilograms. Please change this to make it accurate to real life.
Part of HUD is not translated from Chinese to English
This is displayed on the HUD when using the ACM PD radar mode. Please translate this to English to fix it.
Parts of HUD are missing
The JF-17 in real life has a 24-hour clock, waypoint distance, time to waypoint, in the bottom right section of the HUD. Maximum Gs pulled in a flight so far and radar altitude, that has not been implemented in War Thunder. Please implement this to make it more realistic.
Where the fuel display is located is also inaccurate. Please change it to make it accurate to real life.
Waypoint distance and time in the HUD can be implemented through showing the distance and time to a point marked on the player map/GPS instead in the game. If there is not a point marked, then the time to waypoint should simply be “–|-” instead of any given time, while all the digits in the distance bar should be 0. All of this information is taken from another game that has the JF-17’s displays accurate to real life.
Su-30MKK Flanker-G
For some reason the Chinese Su-30MKK uses the Western/NATO pilot model.
It should instead use the Russian one as can be seen on the Venezuelan Su-30, for example. Please fix this too.
Pilot model is inaccurate
J-15T Flying Shark
Cockpit is not accurate at all.
In recent videos posted by the People’s Liberation Army Navy Air Force (PLANAF), it can be seen that the J-15T’s cockpit is more similar to, if not the same as the J-16’s. It has been changed from the older J-15 cockpit that was similar to the J-11BG’s.
It would be safe to simply implement the J-16’s cockpit with minor modifications.
The stick especially must also be changed. The image below is from an older J-15 variant, however the stick is still different and more modern from the J-15T’s in War Thunder.
Inaccurate HUD UI
This HUD UI is not accurate to real life.
In a (PLANAF) promotional video, a part of it showed the real HUD of the J-15T
It can be seen here that the PRC air forces have adapted a more European-style UI for their HUDs (such as those on the Gripen, Rafale and Typhoon). It seems this was also implemented on the Helmet Mounted Display (HMD) of the JH-7A2 in War Thunder.
Slightly wrongly modeled HUD
A part of the HUD frame has not been modeled. Please fix this.
J-10C Vigorous Dragon
Wrong model of engine
The J-10C in War Thunder uses an older variant of the WS-10 which it no longer uses in real life.
In real life, the J-10C/CE uses the WS-10B series 3, which has been accurately modeled onto the J-16 in War Thunder. Please fix this by changing the J-10C engine to the WS-10B series 3.
Inaccurate HUD UI
As I mentioned earlier, Chinese fighter aircraft HUDs in real life seem to use a European-style HUD UI similar to those on the Gripen, Eurofighter Typhoon and Rafale now as seen in the real life J-15T HUD.
It would be correct to implement this on the J-10C too as Chinese aircraft use the same exact standardized HUD avionic.
J-11B Responsive Dragon
Inaccurate HUD UI
As I mentioned that all Chinese UFCP/HUDs are the same, it would be accurate to simply implement the real life J-15T HUD UI into the J-11B as well.
J-16 Hidden Dragon
Inaccurate flight stick
The stick in the J-16 is old and is not accurate to the real life one. I cannot find the exact image right now but it was in a PLAAF promotional video with the J-16 where it was seen with the newer stick that has been also present in the J-15 for a long time now. Besides, it should be obvious that the J-16, newer than the older J-15s with that newer stick, should have that newer stick as well, instead of the older Flanker flight stick.
Inaccurate HUD UI
As I’ve mentioned for all the previous purely Chinese fighter aircraft above, they use the European-style HUD UI seen in the J-15T in real life. Please change it in the J-16 too.
General inaccuracy of pilot model on all modern (BR 12.7+), purely People’s Republic of China fighter aircraft
The pilot models for Chinese fighter aircraft with JHMCS-equivalent HMD do not have the real life HMD technology helmet that is seen on the J-10C and J-16. It would be more accurate to model this in rather than using the British higher tier aircraft pilot model above.
Modeling this HMD model for the pilot models of HMD equipped aircraft in War Thunder would be a good realistic detail to add.