Here we go with this again. I've done this dance before. People who seek the artificial advantage of bumper cam will always trot out the same lame excuses of the wheel they use. When you are in a car you also have a dash board with unique instruments, mirrors, a roof, and A Pillar all in your line of sight, as well as some aspect of the hood of the car.
A home simulation invariably has multiple vehicles (cars, planes, whatever), each of those has unique interiors, and each of those interiors limits driver/pilot visibility in some form - including even the glass used itself (being too dark for example). A home simulation also runs on fairly standard hardware (monitor or TV). The only compromise is to show, on the screen, what the pilot/driver would see if they were in fact sitting in the vehicle. Whatever control method they use in their chair, or couch, is irrelevant to this. Yes, when I sit at my desk behind me HOTAS I see a stick and throttle, and I see another on the screen too. But the ones on the screen are bespoke to the plane. And I also see a keyboard, tower, tapestry on the wall, wood grain of the desk, etc. That is also part of why all this is on the screen - though the main reason is to present a more accurately restricted view, and.... get this - to present immersion into the simulation by providing a sense of actually being IN the vehicle. The point isn't watching pretty replays or having to pretend to see the inside of something you should see were it real, it's to enhance immersion.
Thing is - this limits visibility. It's a detriment to raw performance. So, naturally, some people don't like that. Yet, just as naturally, they feel the need to justify this to themselves.
Look I'm not telling you to play it some other way. Use bumper cam. Hell, use SRF while you're at it, have a blast. But bumper cam should be a restrictable option online. To fight against that is really unreasonable.
oh - yeah - sorry - I went off topic.. Was reading through the tread, and stompled over that "view complain" and couldn`t help replying. Sorry. In fact there is a tread for views too. Staying on topic is extremely hard. ALL treads go off topic at some point. It`s the human nature. Put throw that Bat-phone on the dump place..
