Yes that’s right and, as I said, I think it was a great move by Flying Iron Simulations.
Just as a point of interest though Just Flight do sell Romantic Wings (WW2 scenery).
There is also a web site which provides a bucket load of WW2 audio clips and music (Glen Miller, Vera Lynn etc) so a WW2 immersive experience can actually be experienced in FS2020.
I used this website for a bit and the Romantic Wings scenery when I first got the Corsair from Milviz. It made a pleasant change for a bit from the current era stuff
Not used the website for a couple of months and not on my PC atm but there is a bucket load of stuff and it’s all free to download. I think at the time I just googled WW2 audio and soon came across it. There is a massive collection of WW2 audio clips, radio clips, music, speeches etc from Churchill and other World Leaders at that time
Not sure what the RW guys on now working on tbh but their RW scenery was quite good. They also provided WW2 assets so I added quite a lot more of them to the scenery. I was surprised how easy it was. I’d not done anything like that before
Sorry to jump in but I asked this question on their Discord and they said yes it would be, as long as the current bugs can be fixed regarding their Spitfire Mk.9 on Xbox as I assume some of the gauges use the same code.
So, red vs white? It depends on how much you depend on looking outside the cockpit. If outside visual clues are important to flying an aircraft (GA/Military), you’ll want red lighting. In planes like the 747, where most of the time you’re flying by instrument and the only time you really look outside is on landing, and any strip a 747 will be landing on will be lit up like a christmas tree, preserving night vision isn’t important at all.
Tell that to a 747 Captain on a Cat III approach at night in 100 metres visibility… at the end of a 12 hour sector… catching a glimpse of centreline runwaylights as soon as possible matters !
There wasn’t really a uniform standard for cockpit lighting in WWII aircraft. Post lights were sometimes red, sometimes white, or sometimes could be switched from red to white via a slider that changed filters. Another option, found alongside the post lights especially in early-war aircraft, was a set of fluorescent light tubes fitted with UV filters, that “lit up” radium-painted gauge markings. So it was possible to have all the lights off except for UV and see nothing but the gauge faces.
Some detail here in an old but still valid thread. It’s about bombers but applies equally to fighters and transport aircraft.
AlanA4643 - Very interesting, thanks. So it’s up to the creator of each “aircraft” in any Flight Sim to do their homework, and supply cockpit lighting as appropriate for that type, and era of that model…
Pretty much. But there were so many field mods done to individual aircraft that the odds are decent that whatever choice the dev makes would be right at some point in time. Beyond that, you’d need some kind of evidence - photo, description, maintenance logs (if they were kept up) for a particular airframe at a particular moment.
Because there are members of the community who obsess about this kind of thing, in some cases it’s possible to come up with something you can document as being authentic. But with so many airplanes built, those will always be exceptional cases.
Well, you’ll be glad to hear GotGravel is a full-time dev at FlyingIron now (in addition to his other commitments). He’s done a ton of tweaking for the Spitfire and now most of the flight model for the P38.
More here:
two engines, fast cruise, good climber no stupid gun sight obsctructing the view…great looking bird…looking forward to this (once it’s on the marketplace).
