Seat Harness incorrect ?

[IvanK]

There are two types of seat harness used on the MB MK7 seat as fitted to the F4. The most common is the version that has the pilot wearing a "Torso" harness. Indeed that it was the DCS F4E pilot wears ... see jpg below. The pilot attaches his harness to 4 quick release fittings.

The second type of harness is the "Combined or Integral" harness. In this style the pilot straps himself into both the seat and parachute harness (hence the term combined) with all fittings going into the circular Quick release box. To my knowledge the only F4 operators that used the combined harness were the RAF and the Luftwaffe.

When you look down in the DCS F4E the seat harness is of the combined type ... it should be of the Torso type imo. see attached jpgs.

 

[Volator]

8 minutes ago, IvanK said:

To my knowledge the only F4 operators that used the combined harness were the RAF and the Luftwaffe.

When you look down in the DCS F4E the seat harness is of the combined type ... it should be of the Torso type imo. see attached jpgs.

Since HB used a German F-4F to some extent as reference (at least according to the videos they released during development phase), it may well be that they included the German variant. Naturally, I like it

[Zabuzard]

Yeah it's a known "issue". It was noticed a bit too late during development of the 3D model and decided to keep it as is for the initial release and possibly correct it later.

[Arecibo]

It would also be great if the harness could be hidden when you put the helmet on. Always feels a bit weird it just sitting there inflight when the body's hidden.

Edited January 31 by Arecibo