Open cockpit canopy exploit needs to be eliminated

Yall’s suggestions and takes would retroactively affect WW2 players as well due to lack of clarity and specificity to your statements.

That’s the only reason I participate in the thread myself - idc about missile thunder, but I like to LARP my landings and take offs if my plane has functioning canopy controls.

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Thay would, I wrote all the things that effect pilots while flying with opend cockpit, I showed how it can be put in the game, and I wrote that the speed where those effects should start to work is for the developers to chose. I never sayed that thay should show up at the time you take off. Thats all.
I just showed how flying with opend cockpits, in aircrafts that wasnt made to fly primary with opend cockpits, behave in real life.

The Bug was fixed while the “Esoprts” Event.
I couldn’t see any plane exploiting this bug… until… the recent big Summer Bugdate.

Since then, the first plane I noticed was a J35A abusing this bug. For this day it was the only player I saw, abusing it…
Yesterday I saw 3 players in 1 match… All Mach 1+ planes…

Gaijin… Please add extreme wind noise to the game while flying with open canopy at 350+ km/h, reduced flight performance and a suffering pilot…

OR simply remove the option to open the canopy at all…

Your choice… but I think option is way easier to apply…

How would the extreme wind noise work? Gaijin can’t increase the actual volume of it because there are probably regulations against that, and not having a canopy already prevents you from hearing anything more at higher speeds. 350kmh is too low for that too, considering there are open cockpit planes that can go 500+.

Removing the option to open canopies doesn’t make any sense either.

It makes way more sense than seeing people flying at Mach 1 with an open canopy…

And no… The wind noise isn’t loud enough… People abuse this bug for better hearing… Or do u think they just like to have some fresh air?

Punishing WW2 brackets where people like to LARP during take off/landing (where pilot’s handbook directly advises opening canopy when entering landing pattern for improved visibility or ability to leave the aircraft) does not make sense just because jets do their own thing.

And soviet aircraft in particular have historical precedent for very, very annoyed pilots not only flying with open canopy but having it removed at times because in their eternal wisdom, soviets designed planes like the Mig-3 where you cannot open the canopy in flight unless you slow way down. Now, imagine your plane catches fire and you can’t bail out…

This was already discussed… They opened it, yes… but never in a combat situation, and they never flew faster than 300 km/h… They did to get fresh air inside their cockpit because the planes were designed poorly and exhaust gases blew into the cockpit.

Later planes, were not designed to fly with no or open canopy… see what happens even in a glider in a video posted in this thread.

In sim you just don´t need to be able to open your canopy mid-flight. Expect u actively want to abuse a bug. J out still works…

The thing is, you can’t do that unless you are going slow. Right now, I don’t think anything needs to be changed, other than maybe more restrictive opening speeds.

Gaijin removed almost any hearing advantages you get from it a while back, so I assume most people use it for visibility reasons. As a fun bonus, the cockpit voice system constantly yells at you, and you can’t hear your rwr as well.

Right… Just stall your J35, press your open canopy button, accelerate back to Mach 1 +… Bug abusing…

Yes. Unfair advantage over other players by abusing the game mechanics.
And…: If you use sound Mods, you are able to hear way better with the canopy open…

They already added this, you can hear better with the cockpit closed. Have you tried actually playing the game?

This guy’s in a combat situation, and he’s definitely gone above 300kph.

If you’re using mods anyway, what’s stopping you from doing the same with the canopy closed? Especially since MANY aircraft cannot open the canopy at all.

Nope, he’s not faster than 300 km/h (don’t know what kph means. Kilo per hour?)

I’m not. A friend showed me in his Stream how much of an advantage it is…

And your source is? A Ki-43 can get well above this speed easily even in a dogfight.

Oh so your friend was using likely forbidden sound mods and you’re using that to argue that the default experience is identical?

I-16 flies faster than 300 km/h.

Unfortunately, its horrible ergonomics make seeing the instruments impossible but it’s quite clearly flying faster than 300 km/h in Il2:GB.

As an aside, in Il2 I refuse to close my mig-3’s canopy after experiencing the same thing as the IRL pilots did: Plane is shot to pieces and i can’t jump out because too fast and my pilot died rather than survived.

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ok… show me the speedometer in this fight…
2nd, show me a Jet doing this…

forbidden? They are on the official, Gaijin approved sound mod market

Show me the source for the claim you made that soviet pilots never flew with the canopy open during combat or above 300kph.

I’m not arguing for jets, but I’m sure someone somewhere made an open canopy jet. Not that the pilots wouldn’t open them during takeoff and landing anyway.

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Alright then post a link to these sound mods then.

I mean, if i ate an apds tank shell in the head id die too but ask the enemies driver why hes not dead

In the picture you show, you clearly can see the control surfaces at the backside of the main wing pointing downwards. So he is flying very slow at this moment.

So any pictures that show a fight with speeds faster than this? No…

All your argumentation is like: Once there was a man, jumping out a plane without a parachute… And he survived the impact. So everyone is able to jump from a plane at 6km altitude and still is able to land safely on his feed, with no injuries at all…

This is exactly what you’re trying to tell the world…

There are enough threds in this forum about it

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Oh… what a nice fight we can see… and no… he’s not RTB as quickly as possible. And yes, I´m sure he still flies at Mach 1.5…
There also was a US plane doing this… The pilot suffered major injuries in his face from the wind…

So still no combat videos with jets and open canopy? Hmmmmm, I wonder why.

Сan you prove this statement? You’re either lying or you don’t know how it was.

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