My thoughts on this. I tend to fly the TA152 for buff hunting. I take 100% and a Drop Tank. I let it auto climb to 30k or so, and anything underneath me is fair game. If I see a set of buffs in front of me at 20k while I am at 30k, I will wait untill I am almost over top of them then dive. I find that by doing that you dont have to hardly use any munitions. I aim for the wingroot at the top, I fire a short burst in this area and the buff will usually catch on fire. I then zoom back up and repeat. You do that, it is hard for the buff to hit you. Another tactic is to come in on their high 12, dive in and HO them.