Might be a lag issue but usually depending on your aoa you should need to lead more than 1 1/2 plane lengths
It's not lag...I just can't hit anything with the taters...I need to get within 200 feet from the plane, and that's how I lose many 262s, for instance, I was riding on 3 kills and I snuck up on a set of 88s NOE headed to a CV, and I got within 200 and opened fire on the left drone, when I saw about 10 taters hit I jerked to the left as hard as I could, but I somehow died, maybe the taters had not exploded the plane? It all happened so fast, I saw an explosion of sorts, and 1 second after that I was in the tower.