Flying from the back seat?

[Voyager]

Is there a way to set up the flight controls so they are available from the rear seat, even if it only works in single plaher? I'm trying to set up some adhoc "Trying out the RIO" and I recall people have been able to bind the RIO controls to the front seat. There a way to do that for stick and rudder for the back seat?

 

Thank you,

 

Harry Voyager

[Karon]

Not the answer you are looking for, but there are options to practice as RIO (I spent more than a couple hundred hours there already, the vast majority in SP).

Personally, I almost never used Iceman because I'm in Active Pause most of the times. Iceman is bit "cluncky" on the geometry practice but still does its job.

If you need any specific scenario, use the mission editor. In a few seconds you can set up almost any target from any aspect, speed and altitude (or orbiting, racetracking, etc).

 

 

 

If you plan to practice BFM instead there's no reason to do it as both pilot and RIO. Unless you want to read speed to yourself :D

[Voyager]

Actually, I'm trying to set up a system to try out two seater operation for someone who hasn't played before. So I'd have the stick and throttle, they've have the RIO stick and cockpit and I'd be running to their basic direction. It's not a long term solution, but was thinking it would be a way to see if they enjoy it before building a gaming rig, and without entirely throwing them into the deep end. At this pojnt, we don't even know how, or if, they'll handle VR with someone else flying the plane.

 

Addendum: offline RIO centric training missions will be a later leg of this, but this is just initial experience.

[Voyager]

Found the lantirn mod. Thinking I could use the same sort of thing for this.

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3303929/

[Karon]

I see what you mean, a guy on reddit asked that this morning. Is that you?

A mod would be your best shot, maybe try to write it yourself.

 

 

 

In a no-mod situation, if I were you, I'd use Iceman and AP to explain the basic ops using their own screen; later monitor their work via the TID repeater in the front seat. You won't see the DDD but it's better than nothing I guess.

 

 

 

Btw, the RIO part is much more complex than piloting for someone not into flight sims imo.

[Voyager]

If it's signed Voyager or Harry Voyager then yes, that's me.

 

It's an experiment. There are different types of complexity, and different people find different things easy and hard. Also, in a team that flies together, both heads can play the chess game. As I said on Reddit, this is as much a "thing to do together" as it is anything else, and there is a lot to do before ever going into a hot mission.