Um seriously, i know the user name your using from il2 sturmovik, and even i believe from the ROF website forums.. and on those two forums this username is well known for "being an #%&*$# know it all" about the most trivial things to do with the games and the planes in them.

SO ill take the bait and have some fun.


IF you get into the cockpit of a ww1 plane, youll see between the cabane struts, bracing wires that create an X shape when viewed form the piliots seat.

normal german behavior and even allied behavior was to use the intersection of these two bracing wires as a primitive cross hair. Its fast, easy, and relatively effective.
The only downside is that it works best with the standard ww1 manner of 100-150 sight in distance and shooting ranges actually used in the war.

the tube sites do work, but most are placed in locations that really really suck to use. And the way the controls are actually set up, to move the pilot head view around do not work the way the user manual says.

Meaning, the user manual says you are setting up a "instant snap view button" that will take you directly to the gunsight view when hit, when in REALITY you are changing the permanent "pilot centered view button" location.

And the actual method described in the manual, and the official rof website key board command lists, do not jive with how it actually has to be done by the buttons your told to do when you do a thread search on that website.

and you HAVE to have the head view centered on the gun sight, just like the collimator sight. and the iron gun sights.

And thus its easier and more accurate to just use the bracing wire and the radiator cap.