Should the La-7 have an artificial horizon indicator?

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Although not every La-7 had it, many of them where equipped with the AG-2 attitude indicator (the same one used on the Il-2, Pe-2 and MiG-3).

There’s a pretty big space unused on the top right corner, next to the radio compass, of the in-game cockpit that corresponds with the artificial horizon indicator placement.

I think, at least, the La-7B model should have it, not only it’ll be great attention for detail, but also it’ll change things around a little bit; most soviet WW2 fighters had rather rudimentary instrumentation and lacked an attitude indicator, the MiG-3, Yak-9DD, Yak-9MPVO and La-7 being the exception

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There’s still quite a bit of room for the extra dials (like in a certain other game…) above the fuel gauge, and also below the turn-bank indicator

Furthermore, british pilot Eric Winkle Brown described soviet fighter instrumentation as “appallingly basic”, specially because of the lack of an attitude indicator, but with the exception of the Petliakov Pe-2 and the Lavochkin La-7, which he described as “finally catching up to western standards”

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Also, the free space below the turn-bank indicator should be occupied by the RPK-10 radio compass (although I don’t know if it would be functional in-game)