Cockpit instrument panel

[taffy2jeffmorgan]

Hi All, Is there an instrument/dial/lever description in English of German and Russian cockpit layouts, i'm sitting in a Fw 190 cockpit looking at a wonderful clear display, but can only guess as to what they all are.

 

Cheers

[Field-Ops]

Its perhaps better in video format since animations and fluid camera angles helps me remember better than pictures. I recommend this guy (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAirCombatTutorialLibrary?gvnc=1) and his "Learn To Fly" where he goes over the layout of each plane in his videos.

Here is his Fw-190 A5 video 

 

Edited September 17, 2018 by Field-Ops

[taffy2jeffmorgan]

Thanks for that.

[BM357_TinMan]

Unfortunately, the developers of this title can be obstinate about certain things at times.  Not allowing for "mouse over tool tips" is one of those things, apparently.  (Maybe it is just too close to "clickable cockpits")

It is several little things like this that make this title a bit unapproachable to casual users who could, given time and opportunity, become avid users.  A flight sim has a lot of "upfront" user investment to begin with by its very nature.  But, adding to it by "sitting" in a highly detailed cockpit with no evident and/or easy way to know what all that stuff is only makes it worse and serves to turn off new users.

Yes, you can search this forum, you can search YouTube, you can search elsewhere and, eventually, find someone who has put in a good deal of effort and done a respectable job explaining this stuff but who, unless they are already somewhat hardcore, wants to put that effort into trying out their shinny new, moderately expensive, toy?

I'm sorry.  I don't mean to be/come off as aggressive and negative but, I really want this project to succeed but I swear, too many who are affiliated with it and who already enjoy it fail to see the way that certain things are done or not done, add, unnecessarily, to a learning curve which is, because of the nature of the genre, already an avoidably steep learning curve.

[MasserME262]

6 minutes ago, BM357_TinMan said:

Unfortunately, the developers of this title can be obstinate about certain things at times.  Not allowing for "mouse over tool tips" is one of those things, apparently.  (Maybe it is just too close to "clickable cockpits")

It is several little things like this that make this title a bit unapproachable to casual users who could, given time and opportunity, become avid users.  A flight sim has a lot of "upfront" user investment to begin with by its very nature.  But, adding to it by "sitting" in a highly detailed cockpit with no evident and/or easy way to know what all that stuff is only makes it worse and serves to turn off new users.

Yes, you can search this forum, you can search YouTube, you can search elsewhere and, eventually, find someone who has put in a good deal of effort and done a respectable job explaining this stuff but who, unless they are already somewhat hardcore, wants to put that effort into trying out their shinny new, moderately expensive, toy?

I'm sorry.  I don't mean to be/come off as aggressive and negative but, I really want this project to succeed but I swear, too many who are affiliated with it and who already enjoy it fail to see the way that certain things are done or not done, add, unnecessarily, to a learning curve which is, because of the nature of the genre, already an avoidably steep learning curve.

well, in my case, a "mouse over tool tips" would totally turn me off, it would kill the immersion. Just IMO.

[[PFR]Sarpalaxan]

Of course you could just look it up but for me the most fun version to do this in russian planes isas followed.

 

Get in to the air, Look at the instrument panel, Start doing manouvers. Going in to the dive one gague should go up (spedometer) One goes down (Altitude) and maybe one goes down and stays. (Sinkrate). Now start overheating your engine and you will find the themperature gague. 

[[N.O.G.F]_Cathal_Brugha]

I have been using this.

 

[taffy2jeffmorgan]

Thanks Cathal Brugha, that is excellent work