ORIGINAL: rivetcounter 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
Yes, but that is not relevant to this question. We are asking whether the driver's position is possible.
ORIGINAL: rivetcounter Byrden, my friend you may have rearranged your furniture but this will never reflect the real thing
What, never? Why not?
Seriously, I want to read your answer. Ispent time setting up that furniture. Ihad measurements that Imade myself inside a Tiger. Now, you've posted in public that Ifailed and wasted my time and Ican't possibly succeed. Why can't I?
ORIGINAL: rivetcounter Bovington do have the real thing
But did they use it to answer the question? Did they take a tall man, and a selection of seat cushions, and did they tell him to get in that position by any means possible? The book also says that the people in the photos could be sitting in the pannier. But if you sit in the pannier, and you are a normally sized adult, you will put your arms outside. It is 45cm tall. I really don't think that the Bovington staff conducted those experiments. I think they are writing assertions and making assumptions, without going to their tank for an exhaustive test.
ORIGINAL: rivetcounter 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.
So, it is possible. You just told me how to do it!
ORIGINAL: rivetcounter 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.
I have been considering that all along. I am somewhat familiar with the Tiger.
