Change German & Russian cockpits to English

[Raven_1964]

Is there a way to change the German & Russian cockpits to English? 

[SharpeXB]

Google translate :-D

[Potenz]

for German cockpits use leo on your mobile, for Russian ones i don't know

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

Maybe with Mods On mode in the future.

[SharpeXB]

Fun with the Google Translate app 

 

 

[Scojo]

Just to try to be helpful, do you know about the cockpit instrument guides in the 'Manuals, tutorials, guides, and tips' forum section?

 

Once you learn the units of measure for crucial gauges, you can easily find where those gauges are in other aircraft

[Raven_1964]

Just to try to be helpful, do you know about the cockpit instrument guides in the 'Manuals, tutorials, guides, and tips' forum section?

 

Once you learn the units of measure for crucial gauges, you can easily find where those gauges are in other aircraft

 

I am mainly flying the IL2 sturmovik. I know the layout of this fairly well, but the others I do not.  Sometimes I'll jump in the another plane and just fly around.  I do have all the manuals printed out and I do read them to familiarize myself with the cockpit layout.

 

Just thought it might be nice to have a mod that changed the language of the cockpits like they do in IL2 1946.

 

Thank you for your suggestions.

 

Raven

[Scojo]

I am mainly flying the IL2 sturmovik. I know the layout of this fairly well, but the others I do not.  Sometimes I'll jump in the another plane and just fly around.  I do have all the manuals printed out and I do read them to familiarize myself with the cockpit layout.

 

Just thought it might be nice to have a mod that changed the language of the cockpits like they do in IL2 1946.

 

Thank you for your suggestions.

 

Raven

Understandable. I'm in the same boat. It would be nice and hopefully mods will take care of it when we get that ability

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

I can't read Cyrillic.   

[Sokol1]

Is there a way to change the German & Russian cockpits to English? 

 

Technochat. 

[Dakpilot]

Luckily all the numbers on gauges in German and Russian aircraft are in English, so I am ok with that

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

Luckily all the numbers on gauges in German and Russian aircraft are in English Hindu-Arabic, so I am ok with that

 

Cheers Dakpilot

 

Edited February 21, 2017 by Space_Ghost

[Brano]

I can't read Cyrillic.

...but you can learn

[SharpeXB]

It's not the German or Cyrillic Russian that gets me, it's all that metric nonsense!

[Brano]

Blasphemy! :D

[Scojo]

King Henry didn't die from drinking chocolate milk. America stormed his beaches and shot him with a good ole S&W.

[SharpeXB]

Google translate will do Cryllic if you write it with your finger.

[Dakpilot]

 

I fear you must be wrong I cannot read numbers in Hindi or Arabic..in BoS they are clearly in English

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

I fear you must be wrong I cannot read numbers in Hindi or Arabic..in BoS they are clearly in English

 

Cheers Dakpilot

 

The 0-9 numeral system is Hindu-Arabic, the numeric glyph common today are based on the Latin alphabet.

 

Aaaaaaanywho...

[Dakpilot]

 

 

Aaaaaaanywho...

 

Humour old chap....is that a thing in S Dakota?

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[Scojo]

Humour old chap....is that a thing in S Dakota?

 

Cheers Dakpilot

I don't think so. Not because they have no humor but because no one lives there...

 

I'm kidding, Ghost

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

Humour old chap....is that a thing in S Dakota?

 

Cheers Dakpilot

It's not.

 

I know... I need to stop being that guy.

 

I don't think so. Not because they have no humor but because no one lives there...

 

I'm kidding, Ghost

 

I've never been to Joe-Juh. 

Edited February 21, 2017 by Space_Ghost

[Scojo]

I've never been to Joe-Juh. 

Don't worry, you're not missing much lol. And good job on spelling out the accent well haha

[-SF-Disarray]

I am mainly flying the IL2 sturmovik. I know the layout of this fairly well, but the others I do not.  Sometimes I'll jump in the another plane and just fly around.  I do have all the manuals printed out and I do read them to familiarize myself with the cockpit layout.

 

Just thought it might be nice to have a mod that changed the language of the cockpits like they do in IL2 1946.

 

Thank you for your suggestions.

 

Raven

 

This may be of help to you:

 

The gauges on Soviet airplanes generally follow a convention across most planes, there are exceptions (it's Russian so of course there are exceptions) but you can mostly trust the standard. Water temp gauges, for example, almost always have a green ring around them and oil temp mostly have a red ring. Fuel gauges, generally, have a big yellow spot on them. If you know the IL2 well enough to recognize the gauges for the plane just by looking at them you can probably do the same in a Yak or a LAGG. I don't speak any German so I can't say if the same is true for the other side, but I suspect that it is based on what I have seen in their cockpits.

[kissklas]

Actually the Google translate app is a good idea! If unsure, have the phone nearby. Also there are some great cockpit cards on the forums somewhere.

[F/JG300_Gruber]

I can't read Cyrillic.   

 

It took me one week to learn 

 

(But I'm not saying I'm understanding what I read !  )

[TetraD]

I also highly recommend learning Cyrillic, I've found it very helpful, not just for IL-2 but for searching information with Google etc. That's because Russian uses a lot of familiar Greek/Latin based words.

And speaking of Greek, also learn the Greek letters, they're very similar to the Cyrillic ones.

 

And when you know the letters you can also transliterate them correctly for your language. I've seen too Finnish people write about Yak's instead of Jak's.

 

The only thing I'm struggling with is that feet/miles nonsense in the P-40. 

[Potenz]

It's not the German or Cyrillic Russian that gets me, it's all that metric nonsense!

it actually the imperial system no sense, metric it's quite simple, it goes in 10's 100's and 1000's for everything, 100cm is 1 metre, 1000mts is 1km, and 1000cm3 is 1 litre an so on, feets miles and gals has no sense

Edited February 22, 2017 by Potenz

[=VARP=Cygann]

it actually the imperial system no sense, metric it's quite simple, it goes in 10's 100's and 1000's for everything, 100cm is 1 metre, 1000mts is 1km, and 1000cm3 is 1 litre an so on, feets miles and gals has no sense

 

Yes indeed but you can't say that out loud!

 

When you say I want half a liter (0,5l) of beer you get 500 milliliters, no more, no less.

 

But if you ask for a pint of beer:

 

1 Pint [Fluid, US] = 473.176473 Milliliters

1 Pint [Dry, US] = 550.610475 Milliliters

1 Pint [uK] = 568.26125 Milliliters

 

It's quite simple really, how can't us metric folk get it, we must be senseless beings :D  

[Scojo]

I'm really annoyed with people saying that those of us who are on the Imperial system are stupid, lazy, or would get our feelings hurt if you said the Metric System were better....

 

That's entirely not the case. The continuation of the Imperial System, at least in USA, is the result of a larger issue.

 

None of us "common" people would disagree with you at all. In fact, at the very least, everyone with training/experience/education in STEM would agree with you.

 

I always use Metric when I can and then convert later because it's easier. Metric helps out the lazy more than the Imperial.

 

However, when I'm trying to visualize something in my head, as an American we still tend to use Imperial not because we're dumb, but because it's what we grew up with so we can wrap our heads around it better.

[=VARP=Cygann]

Wow there soldier, it was clearly just a joke aimed at metric system labeled as nonsense by SharpeXB. But it was still a joke, not an insult (yet you seem taken it that way so it might not have been that clear?).

 

Either way, it's nothing to do with lazy, dumb or whatever. Some cultures use one, others other system and there is no right and wrong, could be simpler and more complex but that again is debatable (what is more simple to me, it is probably opposite to you).

 

I would never try to change diversity had I have the power to do so, in fact I'd rather embrace and encourage it. That don't mean we can't joke about it!

 

You know, some countries drive on the right, while other on the left side of the road. People usually joke with one another about the other guy driving on the wrong side, yet no one is stupid there mate. It is how it is, just chill a bit and hold to your own measures and traditions, by all means.

[Scojo]

I know it was a joke, but I hear this joke every time anything about measurement comes up, so it's become a pet peeve of mine.

 

I apologize. I'm sure you didn't mean it to be intentionally insulting

[Dakpilot]

 

 

I would never try to change diversity had I have the power to do so, in fact I'd rather embrace and encourage it. That don't mean we can't joke about it!

 

 

 

Very true, we watch most of the world driving on the wrong side of the road, but quietly smile and carry on, without need to mock them for their fundamental mistake 

 

(90% of the world is right handed, there is a reason you pass people with your dominant side facing)

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[Scojo]

Very true, we watch most of the world driving on the wrong side of the road, but quietly smile and carry on, without need to mock them for their fundamental mistake 

 

(90% of the world is right handed, there is a reason you pass people with your dominant side facing)

 

Cheers Dakpilot

So you can defend yourself?

 

This is opposite for tournament jousting though. Maybe that's where we got it from

[Dakpilot]

Yes it is mainly that, (defence) but also your sword scabbard would be sticking out on your left side, so also for convenience

 

moving to the other (wrong ) side in Europe was mainly caused by decree in French revolution as resistance to traditional ways, similar things happened in other countries/regimes

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[Scojo]

moving to the other (wrong ) side in Europe was mainly caused by decree in French revolution as resistance to traditional ways

Now that's something I can get behind

[SharpeXB]

Setting new course for off-topic discussion...

 

Are Imperial units the standard for commercial aviation? In all the sims I notice modern Russian (DCS) military jets have metric instruments but I don't see any commercial airliners (X-Plane, Boeing, Airbus) with metric. It would seem disastrous for commercial aircraft and ATC to not be standardized.

[Scojo]

Setting new course for off-topic discussion...

 

Are Imperial units the standard for commercial aviation? In all the sims I notice modern Russian (DCS) military jets have metric instruments but I don't see any commercial airliners (X-Plane, Boeing, Airbus) with metric. It would seem disastrous for commercial aircraft and ATC to not be standardized.

AFAIK there's no global standard.

 

In the US, measurements are in a mix of Imperial and Metric, and that's the case in some other countries as well.

 

I don't know anything about accidents resulting from ATC and Pilot using different systems

[Chief_Mouser]

In WW2 the Americans built a runway near Imphal that was three times longer than it should have been; they built it in Yards when the British plans were in Feet. Mighty confusion of measurement without even introducing the metric system into the equation. Although I can't imagine anyone building something in metres that was measured in centimetres so the metric unit does have its good points.

 

Btw, always insist on your beer being served in a British pint - the volume is greater than both half a litre and the US pint!

Cheers.

[-=PHX=-SuperEtendard]

I don't know anything about accidents resulting from ATC and Pilot using different systems

 

I watched one in this Nat Geo program about air accidents... they filled X pounds of fuel in an aircraft when it had to be X kilograms, it crashed because of being out of fuel in the middle of the flight.