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Most realistic zoom?

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rich12545

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I typically fly with zoom at 75. Seems fine to me. But I've read where it should be 50 for it to be realistic. Does anyone know about this?
 
depends on the plane, really...
but generally, I like 75%...
50% will give you a view closely approximating what you would actually see... with peripheral vision included... but since your monitor exists only in front of you, not to the sides, I fly 75% and limit my field of view to what is directly ahead - in that way, 75% is more realistic...
 
Rich,

I fly with zoom at 1.00 almost exclusively. Anything else is either wide angle or telephoto. I'll rarely go to something less than 1.0 in a tail dragger. I go to greater than 1.00 to be able to identify something in the distance - virtual binoculars for just a few seconds. Besides, changing it all the time, to me, destroys the sight picture especially while landing.

Glenn
 
With my laptop and TrackIr I normally use between .75 and 1.0, it depends on the aircraft. In our simulator we use a Matox Triplehead2go and a setting of .30 for the forward visuals and .40 for the right hand window.

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EMatheson said:
depends on the plane, really...
but generally, I like 75%...
50% will give you a view closely approximating what you would actually see... with peripheral vision included... but since your monitor exists only in front of you, not to the sides, I fly 75% and limit my field of view to what is directly ahead - in that way, 75% is more realistic...
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You're saying what I've read. 50% is realistic. How do you know that? Is it somewhere in an fs faq or something?
 
rich12545 said:
You're saying what I've read. 50% is realistic. How do you know that? Is it somewhere in an fs faq or something?
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experience and personal opinion, mostly... by the same token, I think that on most planes, 100% zoom is rather too close...
 
EDIT: I thought we were talking spot plane view. In the VC, its normally 75 or less. Never at 100. Below is for Spot Plane, where you can adust distance and scale, scale being 75%. Totally different and relates to perspective.

Some aircraft are quite different. For instance, with my just released Kodiak, it seems too far away at 100%. I like to fly usually at 75% in Spot Plane mode. Some planes might be different though. I think bigger planes are usually farther away.

Nick Churchill (great screenshot guru) first taught me about that, 75% view scale. Works awesome. I had never know about that setting. For doing screenshots, its AWESOME...! Too bad FSX doesnt have this feature.




Bill
 
i usually fly with the VC view set at 75, but I read somewhere else that 64 or 65 was more realistic, so sometimes I've been flying with that setting, it puts the view into a wider perspective, and also it doesnt give a wide lens look at all, but a more realistic view in the cockpit.
 
What I'd like to do is fly in the most realistic view. Interesting that with all the experienced flightsim pilots here this isn't something that has been explored. You're saying 65, EMatheson is saying what I've read, 50. I might set it somewhere in between.
 
In VC mode, I zoom out until I can't zoom out any more...usually around 33%. I want as much view as possible when I fly....I guess that comes from my time in CFS2 and needing the wide open views to find the enemy and send him to the ground as a flaming ball of death.

OBIO
 
On almost all planes I use 0.50 in the VC. Some in 0.75 because gauges are not readable if you zoom out further. In 0.50 you can see all your primary instruments and still have a decent view outside.
 
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