All these remarks are very valuable.
1) Squeeze the trigger (using your whole hand on the joystick not only the 'fire-finger'... if you only use your finger you'll always jerk the gunsight i.e not good)
2) Get close... then get closer (of course it depends on the overtake speed)
3) Don't fire from death 6 (very small target)... if you bounce... go below and pull up in the belly... if the con knows you are there... wait till he breaks...(big target).
4) Watch at what range you begin to fire and set your convergence to that range. Also set it slightly apart (for example 350-375-400)This gives you more of a pelletgun type of shot.
5) Watch the experts and ask if you can join them (.join playerid)... it will give you a feeling of when they fire. Specialy with the 109 'experten' out there... they have very little ammo and in case of the 30 mm very slow rate of fire... The best I can remember is Fats... but I don't know if he still flies. I do know that mitsu, Ypsilon and fariz fly... and they are marksmen.
My convergence ranges for planes.
190: 4x 20mm's (375-400) 13mm's (600). I use the 13mm's (in the nose) to scare a con into breaking (big target).
Spit: 2x 20mm's (350) 2x .50's (550) same reason as with 190... also with this setting the gunlines cross at 250 giving extra lethal punch at that range.
Pony: 6x .50's (425, 450, 475)... pony is good at speed so normaly overspeed is greater therefor higher convergence.
etc...
BEE
'Nemo impune lacessit'
PS: Read the pages provided by Leph... they are good... all this info comes from them P (copyright)...

I'm not that good only .0808 so I'm not a great shot... ask leph, fariz, fats, mitsu, rocket or someone else to fly with you in the training arena... best way to improve is practice.
[This message has been edited by JENG (edited 02-15-2000).]