Author Topic: Sights (Read 1329 times)

Rich46yo · « **on:** October 18, 2007, 10:13:51 PM »

What sights do you use on what plane and why? Do you use one sight for all your airplanes?

Saxman · « **Reply #1 on:** October 18, 2007, 10:56:17 PM »

USN Mk8 on the F4Us, F6F and FM2. Because that's the sight they used historically.

Generally I try to match historical sights with the plane that used it.

AirFlyer · « **Reply #2 on:** October 18, 2007, 11:08:47 PM »

n1kgrn in my Zero, dunno why but I like it, and green is just easy to see for me.

Ghosth · « **Reply #3 on:** October 19, 2007, 05:43:57 AM »

And yes I use this for almost all I fly.

Spikes · « **Reply #4 on:** October 19, 2007, 06:08:20 AM »

I use a dot too.

hammer · « **Reply #5 on:** October 19, 2007, 07:48:45 AM »

Dot. Smaller than Ghosth's though.

Ghosth · « **Reply #6 on:** October 19, 2007, 08:16:37 AM »

La5

Yak

A6m5

P51

Exact same sight in all planes. The difference is in the size and location of the sight glass.

Nilsen · « **Reply #7 on:** October 19, 2007, 08:22:17 AM »

Use the force Luke!

BiGBMAW · « **Reply #8 on:** October 19, 2007, 10:17:06 AM »

I raise my seat above the gunsight...I have a sharpy black dot on my screen

This way I can see over my nose a bit more

Nilsen · « **Reply #9 on:** October 19, 2007, 10:45:00 AM »

you can just put your mouse were the gunsight is and press H to lock it.

BiGBMAW · « **Reply #10 on:** October 19, 2007, 01:38:19 PM »

to big..obscures my targets as I aim from 1.5k away..and I aim at the oil pans plug..

Ya..I shoot the teets off a swamp rat from a mile away..all bow down

Rich46yo · « **Reply #11 on:** October 19, 2007, 01:43:24 PM »

I started using P-51DredBMP and love it.

SlapShot · « **Reply #12 on:** October 21, 2007, 11:17:03 AM »

There are only 2 gun sights that you need ...

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Originally posted by SlapShot
Here are the sights that I use now. They are alpha (illuminated) sights.

You place both the ???.bmp and ???_alpha.bmp into the HTC\Aces High\sights directory and when choosing the sight in AH setup, you chose the ???.bmp

Fighter: Carefull here because it is named "default". This should automatically change all plane gunsights to this sight without a lot of effort

default.bmp

default_alpha.bmp

Jabo: For this sight I explicitly go into the AH setup and choose this one for all the planes that I use for JABO. The bottom dot is what I use to line up the bomb drop on. Usually try to get 45 degree angle on drop using the lower dot. This dot can also be used for planes that carry rockets. Same degree angle of attack ... I can let them go from 1.5 to 2K out and hit with reasonable accuracy.

default2.bmp

default2_alpha.bmp

Just right click on the images and download them.

DoNKeY · « **Reply #13 on:** October 21, 2007, 11:31:10 AM »

Rich can you post a pic of it?

Sketch · « **Reply #14 on:** October 21, 2007, 12:27:46 PM »

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Originally posted by SlapShot
There are only 2 gun sights that you need ...

I have been using those for a long time... if it's more than a dot, it's too much!

Donkey, check out my sights pack in my signature, the P51 sight is in there...