I had a revalation: 1000 yards = 10 football fields

[Citabria]

10 football fields.

hell even 500 yards= 5 football fields is a hell of a rediculously long ways to hit anything.

now I like to pretend that us AH peoples have more experience and are just better at shooting than those old ww2 rookies but seriously   I couldnt even hit a stationary target 5 football fields away much less a moving one.

its still to easy to hit long ranges of 600-1000 yards in AH in my opinion after I had this revalation  

[Tac]

Hate to admit it, but you got a point there. I wouldnt be able tell a wing from the nose of a plane at that distance. Hmmm...

[eskimo]

True, but then again, how many of us have gone target shooting with 50 cal. machine guns?  Let alone 2, 6 or 8!

eskimo

[funked]

Citabria, good point.  Now let's apply the same reasoning to the icons.  Anybody think they can tell me the type and range (within 100 yards) of a little WW2 fighter plane that is 100 football fields away?

[Hamish]

 

Originally posted by eskimo:
True, but then again, how many of us have gone target shooting with 50 cal. machine guns?  Let alone 2, 6 or 8!

eskimo

I have, but it was only 1 .50 cal, and it's hard as hell to hit Anything at that kind of range. i'll see if i can find one of my old pics of it and scan it for ya's   Shot a 25mm chain gun too, THAT was fun as hell  


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[WC_Stardog]

I dont mean to sound stupid here but isnt the distance on the tags in feet not yards?
Like I was under the impression that then the tag says 1.5 that is actually 1500 feet or roughly 500 yards?


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[Citabria]

stardog 1.5 is 1500 yards not feet

[wells]

Stardog,

I believe it's metric.  1.5K = 1.5 kilometers = 1500 meters, roughly the same as 1500 yrds

[Kats]

hmmmmm, interesting.

I know I can hit a clay pigeon between 30 - 40 yards away with over 90% accuracy.

A clay pigeon has about a 5 inch diameter and is very ez to aquire and track. An aircraft is about 50 times bigger, so a 400-600 yrd shot is very reasonable.....even a 1000 yrd "lucky shot".

The reason pilots got under 200 yards to take the kill shots is because their ammunition won't go where you aim it at distances greater than that for reasons of:

Wing flexing, ballistic properties of ammo, lethality of ammo at distance, atmospehric effects and so on.

The point is, you can easily see and aim your guns at an aircraft 1000 yrds away, but actually hitting or even causing fatal damage at distances over 500 yards is flukey - not because of eyesight limitations  though.

[funked]

Wells, Stardog, go to your rooms with no supper.  One of the HTC guys said it was yards on this here forum.

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[Westy]

 I can hit the dude riding the ball pick-up cart at 200 yards at a driving range with only a golf ball and a club. Let him ride it out to 500 yrds and gimmee just one .50 caliber mg.  

 -Westy

[Fishu]

 

Originally posted by wells:
Stardog,

I believe it's metric.  1.5K = 1.5 kilometers = 1500 meters, roughly the same as 1500 yrds

AH is the least game to have metrics at the moment  

[WC_Stardog]

well that clears a few things up then  

sorry but thanks for getting me straight on that



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[flakbait]

500 yards is too long of a shot for a .50 cal? I think not. Snipers using .308 or 7mm Remington Magnum rifles can hit a target the size of a silver dollar at that range. Read some books about snipers in Vietnam. Dead Center, by Ed "Kug" Kugler, is a good one. In training with a Winchester Model 70 (30-06) he was hitting 105mm howtizer casings at 700 yards 8 out of 10 times. A single .50BMG round has enough kenetic punch to put some serious hurt on a V-6 engine block at 1,000 yards. Remember, we are talking about aluminium about 1/16 of an inch thick if that. You could put a .223 Remington round, fired from an M-16A2, through it at 400 yards with ease.


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[Toad]

10 Football Fields = 1000 yards = 3000 feet = the length of the grass strip I fly out of.

When I'm holding in position and looking out over the nose at a Mooney turning at the end of the runway/field boundary and 500' in the air.....

I'm continually amazed at the detail I can see on the departing aircraft......

and I hope that someday, with my 5 Gig processor with 2 Gigs of RAM coupled to my 1 Gig video card running AH on my 55" high-definition monitor....

I'll be able to see the target aircraft that clearly.