Anyone else share my IMHO that KA-50 cockpit visibility is far too restrictive .

Anyone else share my IMHO that KA-50 cockpit visibility is far too restrictive for a helicopter .

I imagine that KA-52 is even more so, from pilot POV. KA-52 to me appears to be A-6E version of a helicopter.

You mean not having a floor to look through? I imagine its on par with an apache, armor etc.

you have a better view from the mi-24

but its that way to keep the windows small so they can take a 20mm hit.

there is a video somewhere of a guy sitting in the cockpit while they fire a test shot...

its very russian :)

Ka-50 has always been that way. Your sitting in a high tub of armor. As you lean back in your seat, the armor rises up to protect your head. You have to lean forward to look through the windows. It works well.

Remember, this is slow and low, so you need all the protection you can get. Especially against 20 and 23mm arms fire.

I don't think it's restrictive at all.

You are not glued down to your seat, are you?

Move around a little.

I play DCS in VR, and I rearly sit still.

If all else fails - just open the door and stick yer head out :matrix:

I use TrackIR and have it configured where I lean forward a bit and can see what arms I have mounted to either side. Takes a bit of getting use to.

Its typical Russian design, like the IL-2. Protection before visibility :) I totally dig it.

No issues with it, but I've been flying 109s in il2 for years. I'm probably just used to it. Wouldn't know what to do with myself if I got a f16

It ain't too restrictive, but it ain't like a some bubble canopies civilian aircrafts either.

If I would say what it has as restriction is the forward downward area. But that is where Shkval points and I kill....

A nice solution can be add the "pivot" feature we can see in the F-16C to access the switches behind the seat like External lights and INS Alignment ecc; to look around the two big protection plates to the side of the pilot head

A nice solution can be add the "pivot" feature we can see in the F-16C to access the switches behind the seat like External lights and INS Alignment ecc; to look around the two big protection plates to the side of the pilot head

But you do that already with TrackIR own curves, and VR does it naturally. And you can do that with the view angles.

If you look at the MI-28, then you will see a whole new world of restricted view.

In VR each window is larger than the size of my 1080P monitor.

You are simply sitting in the centre of 4 large plate armoured glass panels (up, left (huge sheet of glass that leads down towards the ground), right and forward).It is like driving your car, the sheer size of the windows lets all the light in.

it is a very special thing to sit in the middle of such large windows in which to look at the world, light coming in from every direction through big large windows.

It is different and it is definitely special and there is very little that will bring me back to real life punk ass gamer sitting in the man cave playing DCS ib friont of a tiny monitor!

regrets.... none!

Cost of trail blazing the youngling market is astronomical, benefit to the community including myself.... worth every penny.