BF 109 AMMO COUNTER CORRECTION

[HB252]

Hello,

 

I have discover IL 2 STALINGRAD since 2 weeks (of course i wiil buy it  ), I have seen the videos in cockpit BF 109, and I think that the ammo counter is  not correct (I think).

 

In demos videos, the ammo counter have 3 red lights in upper sections, I think that the ammo counter have not lights.

 

I think so because I have a BF 109  ammo counter.

 

 

I hope that you understand me.

 

My ammo counter:

 

- BLACK SECTIONS BY DEFAULT:

 

 

 

- WHITE SECTIONS WHEN THE WEAPON IS FIRING:

 

 

I hope explain it well  and you understand my.

 

I think that it is a small detail but for me is very important think (whe you fly in cocpit a lot, you can tired about this errors)

 

Regards. Miguel

[HB252]

<sub>Hello again,
 
I want explain you like workrs the German ammo counter, so I put here others pictures:
 
- side view, open mechanism:</sub>

 

_{- another side view:}

 

 

 

_{- side view closed ammo counter:}

 

 

 

 

_{When the pilot press the fire button, the cilinder ( 1 ) turn over itself:}

 

_{- the White section of the cilinder (ammo counter) will turn down, show the pilot how much ammo is firing,}

 

_{- Of course, also the black sections become in White (like I expain up.)}

 

_{When the plane is on ground and the pilot is safe ( ), the blackmen  reload the ammo in the guns, and press and turn the 2 button for put the cilinder in the full position.}

 

_{Like you see in the pictures  ammo counter have not light, because there is not space in it. I think (I m not sure) that the small White sections become flaring for the cokpit lights, in night of course.}

 

_{Regards . Miguel}

 

 

[JtD]

Nice, I had not seen the insides of this ammo counter yet.

[Bando]

It's the little details that make a sim greater than it's predecessors.

I hope the devs will implement this.

[Sandhill]

Thanks, I had wondered how the counters worked...a rotating cylinder had never occurred to me.  Simple, mechanical, analog.

[Reflected]

Slightly off topic- but ammo counters are not working at the moment, right? Those white stripes that are supposed to go down never move.

[JtD]

For what it's worth, cockpitinstrumente.de has recently added the technical description to their site:

 

http://www.deutscheluftwaffe.de/archiv/Dokumente/ABC/s/SZKK/LuftT6505Schusszeahler.pdf

[Emgy]

Thank you for the details and pics HB252!

 

Slightly off topic- but ammo counters are not working at the moment, right? Those white stripes that are supposed to go down never move.

Correct, unless they changed it last friday.