Instruments

[ozzy72]

Okay a quick history;
PR.IA - standard windscreen, no armoured glass bolted on the outside.
PR.IB and C - rounded single piece perspex screen as per the earlier Spits but minus the inverted U at the front, like a shortened version of the Speed Spitfires one.
PR.XI - rounded single piece perspex screen as per the earlier Spits, different hood from the XI as it didn't have a pressurised cockpit.
PR.X - rounded single piece perspex screen as per the earlier Spits, a Lobelle hood however as it had a pressurised cockpit. This model went into service after the XI... weird! Only 16 ever made!
PR.XIII - Low-level PR, standard rounded single piece perspex screen as per the earlier Spits and armed with four .303 Brownings. Sometimes known as the Type G.
PR.XIX - Griffon engined monster! Again the rounded single piece perspex screen as per the earlier Spits and a Lobelle hood however as it had a pressurised cockpit.
I think that covers all the PR models

[Fozzer]

All analogue for me...like my trusty wrist watch with its hands...
The analogue "T" instrument formation has served well over the years......!

Always easier to note the change in conditions at a quick glance...the analogue VSI for example... ...!

Glass cockpit instruments are all well and good, until the power fails, then you are literally "in the dark"... ...!
LOL...!

Paul....and a glass cockpit won't fit in my Flexwing.... ...!

[C]

PR.XI - rounded single piece perspex screen as per the earlier Spits, different hood from the XI as it didn't have a pressurised cockpit.

Except for PL965 and PL983 which both were restored with standard Spit windscreens...

[ozzy72]

Da but I was talking about the original models Chris

[C]

Da but I was talking about the original models Chris

Do you think we've deviated enough yet from the original topic!

[ATI_7500]

Do you think we've deviated enough yet from the original topic!

My beautiful topic turned into a Spitfire discussion. *Grr*

[C]

My beautiful topic turned into a Spitfire discussion. *Grr*

Just for you Bjorn...

[ATI_7500]

Just for you Bjorn...

Never...never ever come close to Germany in the future.

*Orders new 88 ammo*

[beaky]

I soloed with "steam gauges", and that's what I'm used to.
A GPS and Stormscope are nice things to have for all-weather flying,  
but hardly necessary, even in big jets. I love flying my old VC10 in the sim... with the AP on, of course!
I'm still not used to the multifunction panels and HUDs I play with in FS9... I keep expecting them to flicker and die on me. and scrolling numbers just don't click in my 60s-era brain the way needles and dials do.
And hitting flaky LCDs  doesn't work half as often as it does with analog instruments...


... if you can't fly VFR with just clock, chart and compass, you've got no business flying...

[Ivan]

Depends on the aircraft, but stylish russian steam stuff just looks good

[Felix/FFDS]

All analogue. I absolutely despise the idea of putting all glass panels in a GA plane :-/. It's a huge waste of money. I guess I should have picked "depends on the aircraft, because they are perfectly suited to airiners and fighter jets, but now I can't retract my vote for some reason.

Er.... you now have no vote cast.....  

[TacitBlue]

Well that's strange. It's fixed now- Depends on the aircraft.

[Rocket_Bird]

Analog!  Analog! Analog!  Glass is evil... EVIL!  Though I do fly the SR-20 in FS a lot...  :-X

[flyboy 28]

Glass 'pits are for wussies!