It wasn’t audio awareness… we’re talking about AUDIO here. If you can find me documentation that any pilot anywhere used his ears to help find other aircraft I’d love to see that.
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After a certain speed the canopy glass comes off and you have almost perfect visibility. Although in the killcam it looks like the glass is still attached to the plane for some reason.
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I flew my F4U Corsair last night after the latest patch with the canopy open just before landing, was a bit damaged, there was quite a bit of wind noise that was not there before. Maybe they finally fixed it so that flying with the canopy open is noisy. I will try it again with higher speeds and also a jet and see what the effect is.
I’m sorry, what? in jets, once you get up to speed you physically cant open the cockpit because the game wont let you
they did
Pitch up, slow down and open.
most jets would stall by the time you slow down enough
People glitch it open on takeoff… if you mess with it while you’re on your roll it will open at some point, I did it once by accident in an F-16.
I’m glad they finally “fixed” it (but the sound whoring continues because a previous update made opening the cockpit to hear outside noises not necessary, as you hear them with the cockpit closed).
I’m glad they finally addressed it… though it was hardly the biggest issue in the game it was rather lame.
Nah, most of them stay controllable at 150 kts
I support.
they fixed this a while ago dude its an abandoned thread
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I came from sim battles right now, I still see people flying and canopy is opened. And I’m aware of the sound penalty that got implemented recently, but apparently it is not enough, people are still abusing this issue.
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Yeah, I was messing around with my cockpit and you can definitely leave it open while you fly.
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I actually saw one recently too, wondered if that was just a glitch…
Would need a bug report if it repeats.
Is it written somewhere they fixed it or something? because all I found was sound hearing penalty, like hearing will be more difficult than before, that’s it.
I think I even tested it after that patch and canopy could not be opened anymore over a certain speed.
But that was a while ago, somewhere in summer?
And get unfair advantage with better view without significant penalty to pilot and aircraft specs
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I always thought it was a glitch you had to perform a certain way but that they fixed it by making it really noisy…
I have not tested it (because mainly even with it closed you hear too much so I don’t care about this other than to make fun of those pathetic enough to fly around with their cockpits open for some hearing advantage which should not exist).
This doesn’t happen for all cockpits that open. Also, the video shows a turboprop. Not a standard Piston propeller craft.
Something like that has always been in the game, but the speed that it kicked in at probably lowered when they did the cockpit sound changes. The sound changes also make it impossible to pinpoint stuff that isn’t right beside you over around 350kmh.
The main reason I’d keep a cockpit open now is just for visibility, and only on propeller planes. It is possible (and realistic) to do on some planes, and there are even photos of open cockpits in flight.