Byrden, my friend you may have rearranged your furniture but this will never reflect the real thing whereas Bovington do have the real thing not believing it possible 4 years ago I e-mailed them and the response was “no it can’t be done” now I have no reason to believe they were trying to miss lead me, simply leaning over and placing your elbow on the sponson is only half the battle you also have to have your right foot stretched to the throttle peddle and hold your weight on the left foot and elbow.
Does the camera lie, “technically no” but we interoperate what we wish to see, I forgot about the picture you posted but our Cameraden Iposter is right the guy with his head out of the hatch is vertical as opposed to leaning painfully to the left with his head tilted to the right, do you agree that it would be far easier to have another member of the crew behind you with his head out of the hatch tapping the driver on the appropriate shoulder as to direction.
What about the offset nature of the hatch in relation to the drivers vision port or is that another negative, please think from the drivers position up.