Sorry Leonid, but since this thread has changed to "Shell Drop", I have a few questions.
My lack of experience will clearly show here, but it becomes extremely frustrating for me at times.
My strongest reccomendation to a new La5 pilot after flying the AH one almost exclusivly since Beta 1 tour... Don't do shots under G over 3. If their over 300 yds away your hit probability is scarce. Better to pull farther ahead and take up a spot behind them for a nice easy pick.
My typical ride of late has been the N1K2. There is no way I can watch the G meter, but my shots are most always under 300yds. However, basically I have given up trying to shoot while turning.
Up till now I assumed it was the modeling of a low veloctity cannon round of the N1K2. I simply cannot pull enough lead if I am turning and my target is turning, to get hits. Hit sprites show through cockpit art and I am just not getting any.
I had thought, that the projectile is actually not effected by the G load of the plane. It flies its normal trajectory, based on where the muzzle was pointed at the time of firing. The illusion of projectile G drop is from the plane moving away from this line of trajectory. Is this correct?
It most often in appears to me that the game just does not resgister hits if both me, and my target are in hard to medium turns. The tracers seem to move right through the target, but nothing happens. Since no one else has brought this up, I am pretty sure that it is my gunnery and not the game.
Experimenting with various lead angles I have shot many times with the target "Under the Hood", sometimes way "Under the Hood". It amazes me at times how long some players stay in the same turn and I have explored about every lead angle that I can get to.
Up until I read some of Dingy's comments, I figured this was just a characteristic of the N1K2. I was assuming the normal trajectory drop was higher than other planes. The reason I say this is because, this G drop in shell projectile appears to me to be much less in the P-51 or the Spitfire. I can say this only because they are the only other planes I have enough experience in to be subjective about. (Go ahead, tease me! Let the Dweeb comments fly
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One last thing that confuses me. If I am flying level and my target is flying level. At a range of d400, I can pretty my much put the sight on the target and get hits. This tells me the shell trajectory is fairly flat up to a least d400.
Why can't I get hits if I am pulling lead at 3 G's, and my target is pulling 3 G's and I am at d150? These shots are most often taken in the lead from inside the turn radius, a high six position relative to the target.
My only real success for getting hits is to move into lag pursuit and hope to get a shot, when neither myself or my target is turning. This is not something I can take the time to do in a furball and usually end up on the deck at stall speed anyway, if I stay with it. This is a bad idea most of the time.
Some expert advice is needed. I would appreciate any help offered.
Sorry for the long post, some things are hard to describe accurately.
Mino
[This message has been edited by Minotaur (edited 01-19-2000).]
