DamienB

Certainly isn't more realistic. In reality, beyond 20-30 degrees or so, any angle of bank is perceived as more extreme than it really is, not less which is the effect this mod would have.

Think it's a bad idea myself. When I'm flying, rolling the aircraft is completely different to rolling my head - the horizon does tilt exactly as it does with the video camera example you mention, and your eyes do not compensate. If you tilt your head when flying, you get the eye roll compensation thing, but rolling the aircraft is totally different.

...and get banned for 'advertising'...

Wish I could but I'm afraid that sort of information is still well and truly secret... ...particularly that!! Type 42s, in particular, are still in service...

One thing the sim would do well to model is just how difficult it is to sink a ship. A single Exocet certainly won't manage it, though it may well be an effective kill in that the ship is removed from the fight. Bombs need to be in pretty specific spots to cause enough damage too and we all presumably know of the issue the Argentines had with fusing - until the BBC World Service kindly let them know that their bombs weren't going off...

It's the union flag - the blue is just very faint on that photo - no stocks of the correct blue paint were onboard ship.

I can only suggest you or he are mistaken - radio simply doesn't sound like that. The best it could possibly be would be a recreation of the real thing, but even that doesn't appear likely given what the pilots have put in print prior to now.

Saw the trailer for 1982 We Were There last night - now that's hilarious... Exocet on the way to hit HMS Invincible! Union flag: http://www.btinternet.com/~broadsword82/ga...ventry/cov8.jpg Recognition stripe: http://www.btinternet.com/~broadsword82/ga...ventry/cov5.jpg These were applied to the Type 42s to forestall any possible confusion with the Argentine T42 which, in the end, took no part in the war. I don't think the stripes were applied to other ships, but pennant numbers were usually removed with a few exceptions e.g. HMS Yarmouth. Not sure how many got the union flag applied on top of the bridge.

Only found out about this sim tonight - looking forward to seeing the end results. On the topic of the 3d model skins, and on the off chance you don't already know this, I see a number of inaccuracies - RN ships wearing their pennant numbers (they were all removed - many instead carried a vertical black recognition stripe approximately midships, with a union flag roughly daubed on top of the bridge), SHARs wearing squadron markings and stencils, etc. Hope that's not too nit-picky...!

I have some interest in this particular mission, seeing as my father was on HMS Coventry, and I run the HMS Coventry website. I have no doubt whatsoever the audio file is a poorly done fake. From accounts I have read from the pilots involved, strict radio silence was the order of the day and this was only broken when their targets were sighted, with a short amount of on-air jubilation that was cut short by one of them reminding the others about radio silence. There certainly wasn't 15 minutes of jabbering, which would have been suicide for all involved! Furthermore, during the recording you often hear more than one voice talking at once - radio simply doesn't work that way, it's one at a time. Additionally VHF is line of sight, and as they were at wavetop height with no friendly units nearby and no AWACS, who on Earth would have been managing to both pick up all this audio and record it?