Dumb Question: U-2VS

[Rustedgun]

Feeling a bit dumb. I can jump to the backseat of the U2VS and when I do I am facing forward (good, I can fly from the backseat). However I can not turn around to take control of the gun. I use a home cockpit and VR so I can turn my head to a degree but not enough to be fully facing backward. I can use all the normal back seat controls and I can stand up and move to the right or left but I can not rotate my view to be looking backwards and use the gun (tried the mouse, joystick view controls, looking in the View control settings but nothing seems to work). 

[THERION]

10 hours ago, Rustedgun said:

Feeling a bit dumb. I can jump to the backseat of the U2VS and when I do I am facing forward (good, I can fly from the backseat). However I can not turn around to take control of the gun. I use a home cockpit and VR so I can turn my head to a degree but not enough to be fully facing backward. I can use all the normal back seat controls and I can stand up and move to the right or left but I can not rotate my view to be looking backwards and use the gun (tried the mouse, joystick view controls, looking in the View control settings but nothing seems to work). 

 

This plane is a bit special as you already discovered, because you can actually also fly this plane from the backseat like a flight instructor. So if you want

to turn around in the backseat, you just press the key to take control of the rear gun and you will face backward.

[Rustedgun]

Thanks Therion,

 

I had tried that before with no luck but I went and tried it again just to make sure. No matter what I try I am always facing front. You are doing this in VR right?

I can successfully switch to the back seat but I am always facing forward. I tried:

Turret Take/Leave control (T), Turret Nestle to Gun sight (Lsht + T), Switch to next firing point (Lsht + C) and then I have tried all of the controls that would work but don't because the VR headset is in control (tried Turret Gun sight View, reset horizontal and vertical to gun-sight, pilot head backward, right and left, turn pilot and gunner head horizontal and vertical, and all the gun-sight controls. 

Bottom line so far is the only way I could use it is if I physically moved my actual body backwards which is next to impossible with my home cockpit and Hotas controls. What am I missing?

[Rustedgun]

OK. Got it, sort of... but still an awkward system. Go to the gunners seat and look as far left or right as you can and then re-center the VR view. You are not facing backwards but you are facing to the back right or back left quadrant. Then do all the regular "take control", nestle to gun-sight etc. I still am a bit baffled as to how I quickly switch from left to right but I will sort that out. Given that this is the first plane with a back-seater that can fly and fire it is understandable that everything is not fully ironed out yet. Still love the U-2VS