Astounding Feat

[Lusche]

But how do you switch the 5" from HE to AA?

5" are firing AA by default. To switch to HE and back, use BACKSPACE.

[Bucky73]

I've known Hap for a long time and he has always been good in those 5" guns. I'm with you Dred, I would be there for 3 days straight trying to get that many kills. I've been playing for 4 years now and I doubt I have 60 kills TOTAL in a 5"

[Goat1]

5" are firing AA by default. To switch to HE and back, use BACKSPACE.

Thank you Sir

[Simaril]

After you've learned how, anything can seem easy. Personally I struggle with tasks that need deflection shooting -- and the longer the range, the worse I get.

[ImADot]

I've been getting better and better in the 5" (check my score and you'll see I've got more kills with them rather than in fighters).  I can generally start killing stuff as it comes into icon range, and I'm getting better at long-lead deflection shots too.  The best advice I heard a while ago: if you want to get good in manned-gun at bases (or 5" on ships), when you attack them start recording video.  If there's a good shot manning the gun, play back the video from his perspective and see what he's doing to kill you that easily.

I haven't actually gotten around to do that, but will soon.  There's a good gunner that I've heard about that will kill you from man-gun with one or two shots from 3-4k out.

[Lusche]

The best advice I heard a while ago: if you want to get good in manned-gun at bases (or 5" on ships), when you attack them start recording video.  If there's a good shot manning the gun, play back the video from his perspective and see what he's doing to kill you that easily.

I haven't actually gotten around to do that, but will soon.  There's a good gunner that I've heard about that will kill you from man-gun with one or two shots from 3-4k out.

Be careful when analyzing someone else's gunnery from your films. Due to lag you can't really see what he did see on his screen. You even may wonder why his target exploded while all his tracers went 100 yards past them.

[MajIssue]

But how do you switch the 5" from HE to AA?

Backspace key

[LYNX]

Is this a new feature.  You can't or at least didn't used to be able to go to a filmed mannable ack.  Not unless it's your film from an ack.  To clarify...if you film from a plane you can switch to a baddies plane in film viewer but you can't go from plane to ack gun in viewer.

[Murdr]

I think it would be great if the training arena had that piper sight for 5" practice, so you could see how to lead a set of bombers with alt (as opposed to them flying right at you, which is easy)

It does.  Simply press the Tab key to turn it on vs enemies.  For friendlies, you have to first enable friendly lock by pressing Ctl-Tab.  Of course you'll need a willing partner to play target drone for you.

[Wingnutt]

ive hit a p51 from beyond icon range once, he dove in and dropped on the carrier right as I got to the tower..

hopped in a 5 incher, only to see hom screaming away on the deck, fired 2 shots, both missed.. then as he passed 6.0 i fired a third, all i see is a black dot, then a little puff, then the black down starts dropping and i get the kill message.


other than that once occurance ive never been very effective with them beyond 3.0 or so.

[whiteman]

I just fire randomly into a furball close to the cv and hope I hit someone 

I've done that at a furball that was 4.5-5.5 away just to see what kind of lead i needed, figured I'd at least get a burst near some body. Accidentally hit a guy that wasn't even in range yet.

[ODBAL]

Just to clarify, is there a way to set the range on the fuses or do they just explode when they get near an enemy plane?  Also, I have noticed when I am firing 5" Guns I never seem to be able to see my rounds exploding in the air.

[ImADot]

Just to clarify, is there a way to set the range on the fuses or do they just explode when they get near an enemy plane?  Also, I have noticed when I am firing 5" Guns I never seem to be able to see my rounds exploding in the air.

Far as I know, you cannot change the proxy fuze.  You'll only see the puff of the explosion if the shell got close enough.  If you're too far off the target, the shell will happily keep going until it finally hits the ground somewhere.

[SlapShot]

Just to clarify, is there a way to set the range on the fuses or do they just explode when they get near an enemy plane?  Also, I have noticed when I am firing 5" Guns I never seem to be able to see my rounds exploding in the air.

Our 5" guns use radio proximity fuses ... they are not timed fuses.

[RTSigma]

Best feat of mine was somehow, someway, landing a spitfire in a spin with gears and flaps down. I think I was drunk. And still on the runway. I can't really remember but boy howdy do I love a good whiskey!