I was thinking that a target sleeve that automatically calculates your percentage of hits per pass and then displays it in the text line might be useful and interesting.
My thought was that as a plane comes within 1000 yards of the towed sleeve the hit counter in the sleeve would reset from a previous pass. The sleeve would take the plane that reset the counter as the plane making the pass (i.e. any other plane's gunfire would not register on the sleeve during this pass). The counter would start counting when the attacking plane starts firing, and would record the number of seconds firing continued and the percentage of hits during the pass. As soon as firing ceases for more than 3 seconds the counter stops recording and the results would be displayed in the text line:
Name – bursts – total seconds of fire – hit percentage
B-26s, Wildcats, Hurricanes, TBMs, SBDs and no doubt other planes towed sleeves.
