[Klemm]

Make it historically acurate. How can real be cheating? If a mitake was made, and people do nto want to believe it, or correct it, let us offliners have it. I want my sim to be as accurate as possible. Hero worship can go on online and letters sent. I want my Fw I payed for to be as true as it can be. I even want my extended foot rest modelled when I am on the ground!!

If the bar was removed then you would be able to see through your engine hood while just lookin through the gunsight or even in the normal seating position. It would look ugly and not proper and it would be some kind of a cheat.
There would have to be a way to model the missing engine cover, a thing i would welcome for the 109s too.

I admit, i use the 6DOF mod, but with this the view through the gunsight is nearly ok. Yes, i can see through the engine cover, but i never used it as some form of a cheat, btw it is still too obstructed by the spinner and various other stuff to use the view forward down as anything remotely as a cheat. It just bothers me because it is so ugly.
And to remove the bar would be wrong too, because then the viewpoint would be actually LOWER than the real pilots had it. I guess the gun covers on the upside of the covers would be visible in an ugly way. So the whole cockpit would have to be moved upwards some centimeters before deleting the bar is feasible. If its possible is another thing.

But for the possibility of raising the gunsight: Somewhere i read that if that was done, the guns wouldn't be anymore in harmony with the gunsight, i.e. they would shoot lower than indicated.
I wonder if there is any real solution to the problem?

BTW i find the way gunsights are implemented really annoying. The whole idea of such a gunsight is that whereever you move your head, the crosshairs will still be centered. But in this game the crosshairs actually move WITH the view! It seems like the gunsight reticle is nothing but a picture some distance in front of the viewpoint that is always visible within the defined confines of the gunsight or outside of the "restriction box". That is nothing like the real thing!
/rant off

Just wanted to say that this is all not so easy as it seems. A real solution has to be found! And that could prove well impossible. At least I can think of none. Maybe someone else can.