LaGG-3 Brake Lever Reversed?

[Cynic_Al]

I searched for any previous mention of this issue.

As rendered, the design of this control suggests it is a push lever, although for safety reasons I can understand why the real plane may have been modified to make it pull-to-operate.

Can any Lavochkin historian confirm whether or not the animation is reversed?

[MAJ_stug41]

Do you mean the lever on the stick to activate the pneumatic brakes?

[Cynic_Al]

4 hours ago, MAJ_stug41 said:

Do you mean the lever on the stick to activate the pneumatic brakes?

 I can't find any other brakes on this plane, so I suppose I must.

[Lusekofte]

Do you have it assign to an axis?  Or button?

if axis just reverse it

[Cynic_Al]

40 minutes ago, Lusekofte said:

Do you have it assign to an axis?  Or button?

if axis just reverse it

 

I'm not saying the control is reversed, it isn't, but the animation may be.

[czech693]

I think you're saying that the serrated face on the lever would indicate that it is supposed to be pushed like the other two buttons.

[IckyATLAS]

In IL2 the lever is designed to be pushed. It works pushed, so it is coherent.

In the cockpit stick and picture I could find which are of terrible quality, but combined to cockpit drawings I could find it seems that the lever was made to be pulled.

I agree here there is a difference. It is not clear how it was, maybe there were different variants of the Lagg-3 sticks.

[Cynic_Al]

4 hours ago, IckyATLAS said:

maybe there were different variants of the Lagg-3 sticks

 

In my original post, the safety aspect to which I alluded was the possibility of moving for the lever with a gloved hand and accidentally catching the gun triggers.

Whatever the reality it's hardly a critical issue, unlike the low-speed ground handling, but I won't swerve uncontrollably into that subject.