Am I the only one that finds the German field mod guns sights (Abl DVa) completely worthless ? Or am I just missing something on how to use them? With the iron sight you have to "sit" up and to the left to line the sights up, and the other sights ........who knows how you get them lined up.

Like I said, I might be missing something, and not using them correctly, so can anybody could fill me in on the proper use of these sights. Unlike the Spads 13 field mod sight that are great improvement over stock sights.

To be honest I think some of these sights are just for aesthetics (and a money stream for 777). I doubt many pilots would have used them in RL. Just get in close and let rip.

Aces such as Rickenbacker and Guynemer were known to have collimator sights on their planes. No doubt many others did as well.

You need to "zero" the gunsights by using ins, home,del, end, pup, pdown keys and f10 to save. The best thing to do is "zero" it to a snap view button (like numpad8) so that you can snap to gunsight view as needed....

The german planes benefit the MOST from the sights in my opinion. Most of the german planes don't have sights before the field mods where the Entente did at least have ring and bead.
Just change your center view to be default on the sight like said above.

I use field mods on most german planes, but some of the Entente I still use ring and bead:
-Pup and tripe because the field mod position is very hard to use like that
-SE5a I like the big ring and bead sight, I've just used it for so long I can't make myself change

I have most of the mod packs and find them pretty useful apart from the ones for the Sopwith Pup and Triplane which seem very low.I set my cockpits up(also with Trackir) so that its just a little lean to the left or right and it works very well.

Hector

If you have not seen it yet, here is a good, quick video on centering the gunsight view.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Requiem10NS#p/u/21/tzxLT4FlgKQ

I do better with the collimator sight in the Albatros V than without, but agree it may just be a personal preference thing.

Best wishes.

I especially like the iron sight mod on the Albatros D.Va, because to aim with the sights on one of the machine guns one has to sit very low in the cockpit (I don't use snap views).

That said, I don't use the iron sight mod for D.II and D.III Albatroses, because they're positioned way too far up above the windscreen for my liking.

Hey thanks for the replies, I didn't know about adjusting the view points and the link to the video was helpfull. I know just have to get use to flying from the view now.