Gun Safety Switch Settings

[Captain Orso]

The 'Guns Safety Lever', as it is called in the Quickstart Manual and in the controller settings, has only a toggle key/button receptacle in the Controls settings, which is AFAIK defined in the default.lua:

-- Joystick -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Safety Lever
{ down = device_commands.Button_2, cockpit_device_id = devices.WEAPONS, value_down = 1.0, name = _('Input.SpitfireLFMkIX.safety'), category = _('Stick')},

It is possible to setup the explicit receptacles using Button_1 and the text references 'Input.SpitfireLFMkIX.safety_1' and 'Input.SpitfireLFMkIX.safety_0', but the texts are not defined, but they do work:

{ down = device_commands.Button_1, cockpit_device_id = devices.WEAPONS, value_down = 1.0, name = _('Input.SpitfireLFMkIX.safety_1'), category = _('Stick')},
{ down = device_commands.Button_1, cockpit_device_id = devices.WEAPONS, value_down = 0.0, name = _('Input.SpitfireLFMkIX.safety_0'), category = _('Stick')},

To the name, it's a switch, not a lever, unless the Brits historically named it that. Levers are basically long sticks. The Gun Safety Switch is however obviously not a lever, but a switch.

 

So the name should really be 'Gun Safety Switch', and 'Gun' without the 's', because the word 'gun', although generally a noun, in this case is being used as an adjective (What kind of a safety switch? A gun safety switch.), and you do not pluralize adjectives, ergo Gun, even if the switch is for more than one gun. If there were more than one switch, it would be 'Gun Safety Switches'.

 

BTW the flight manual on page 57 actually does name it 'Gun Safety Switch', but on page 187 in the section name the default control settings, it is again named 'Guns Safety Lever', also on page 33 of also of the Quickstart Manual.

[Sokol1_br]

The real "BBC" safety device is a lever, located in lower part, what you see in upper part is just the pin indicator.

 

 

This lever turn a disc with gears that turn other disc with gears and move a cam in their upper part, this cam move the indicator pin up.

 

In safety position the pins in each disk prevents the fire button move down.

 

https://postimg.org/image/v6r0fa87h/

 

In game the lever is modeled and animated. ;)

 

 

Curious why they missing the Spade Parking Brake catch - or at least their function in commands.

Edited December 20, 2016 by Sokol1_br

[Captain Orso]

Well, call it a lever or a switch, tomato or tomato, regardless, it should still be 'Gun Safety Lever' without the 's' and the button_1 text should be put in.