It seems that ergonomics was not a concept followed in cockpit design for the P40. The instruments are all over the place. Very interesting but imagine having to decide on the rpms with a Messerschmitt on your tail.
I know the comment is a year old, but I reply anyway. You don't micro-manage your rpms. You use the automatic governor to lock the setting with the manifold pressure. Then you only have to worry about throttle settings to keep manifold pressure from blowing the engine during a dive. It was discussed in the video.
Hello, I am a high school student involved in the Illinois Veterans & Community Classroom Project. I am making a 40 minute documentary about a local veteran and would like to use this video in my project. Please let me know as soon as possible! Thank you, Charli
Will Smith is particularly wrong as the P-40 was designed before the war and the British were one of the first customers for it. Everyone is entitled to an opinion though. No matter how uniformed it may be.
AustinPetDetective It's not hard when you understand all the controls, in fact pilots were blindfolded as a part of their training and asked to name all the controls by feel before they were allowed to take off.
Awesome, Lou! Please keep finding these training movies.
This is a P40F version with the Packard Merlin engine. The Allison versions had a air intake on top of the engine cowling.
I wonder how many guys shot the runway up by mistake when intending to lower the flaps!
Excellent work, dude! Keep it up. I was looking for videos like this for a long time, this is surely very usefull to flying sims.
Awesome video.
There's a lot more critical things to hit on the field than the runway. A salvo of errant 1/2 inch bullets will do serious damage.
Was that Troy MaClures dad?
No shit lol
Love it, love it!!
It seems that ergonomics was not a concept followed in cockpit design for the P40. The instruments are all over the place. Very interesting but imagine having to decide on the rpms with a Messerschmitt on your tail.
I know the comment is a year old, but I reply anyway. You don't micro-manage your rpms. You use the automatic governor to lock the setting with the manifold pressure. Then you only have to worry about throttle settings to keep manifold pressure from blowing the engine during a dive. It was discussed in the video.
Not too much to remember then!
Need a chute and helmet and goggles to b a "boss man" PILOT. You need the chute to bail out of that jacked up plane.... its off the ground.
Hello,
I am a high school student involved in the Illinois Veterans & Community Classroom Project. I am making a 40 minute documentary about a local veteran and would like to use this video in my project. Please let me know as soon as possible!
Thank you,
Charli
You are welcome to use video of P-40. Would like to see your work when you finish. Please credit my work.
Nice, although please de-interlace the footage next time.
suppose the plane is armed with bombs. How does the pilot drop the bombs?
Andrew Newman
Go to the menu, click controls, scroll down to weaponry.
Too fast on the primer... LOL wait longer for syphon to fill...
Will Smith is particularly wrong as the P-40 was designed before the war and the British were one of the first customers for it.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion though. No matter how uniformed it may be.
How on earth is a pilot suppose to remember all this ?.
AustinPetDetective It's not hard when you understand all the controls, in fact pilots were blindfolded as a part of their training and asked to name all the controls by feel before they were allowed to take off.