A-10C nightime cockpit with Deffered Shade.

I think its a little tad too dark. The A-10C cockpit with defered shading. Canopy glass acts as a sunglasses at night, there is considerable darkening when viewing terrain through canopy glass then outside. Flood lighting inside A-10C does not work with defered shading ON. Some buttons, switches, and dials are tottally black, and difficult to find. NVG performance is completely different with defered shade. Is it really defocused everything inside cockpit, except of HUD and outside of canopy, and gives pilot circular non-stereoscopic porthole of a sight? If that how it is in RW then thats a dangerous system. I get it that ED programmed adaptation to night visibility of human naked eye, into the Defered Shadeing engine. Takes a few minutes flying to adapt. Excellent touch.

Flood lighting and other cockpit lighting issues have been noted and are being addressed by ED.

As for the NVG performance, this has already been covered in this thread and is completely realistic. NVGs don't autofocus, the wearer chooses a focus distance. For most military operations (flying, driving, night observation or patrol on the ground) this means an infinity focus is most useful. So as things get closer to the wearer, focus is lost. In the case of flying with binocular tube NVGs, you simply look under the NVGs to see the panel (think of it as wearing bifocals). The "new" 2.5 NVG system allows this and is realistic.

Unsafe? Insomuch as flying at night at low altitudes and high speeds is generally less safe than daytime flying I guess you could make that claim. I would much rather have NVGs than not, however.

Has the flood lighting been fixed in update 4? I still cannot see anything in the dark. I mean the instrument lights work, but I cannot see any of the switches.

Thanks

+1

Indeed...

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