The scourge of 262's

[Lusche]

On the average, less than 1% of all kills by planes in the LW arenas are made by the 262. And with the notable exception of literally a handful of players, most 262 pilots do only grab one when it's really cheap (= their country outnumbered big time)

[Slash27]

Ive never seen anyone "turn fight" with a 262, not saying it doesnt happen.  Explain "crossing shot theory". or does that give up the big secret.

Bad guy crosses in front, bang he's dead.

[uptown]

Ive never seen anyone "turn fight" with a 262, not saying it doesnt happen.  Explain "crossing shot theory". or does that give up the big secret.

Oh they might turn, but it'll be a ways out. I wish I could get a 262 to turn with me more often. Grizz is a good shot and if you watch his films, he flings the nose to throw a tater at you.  I'm starting to notice that about the 109 sticks.  

Ardy made a good shot on me the other night just like Grizz would of done. Something is a foot with the tater spud gun thingy.

[BiPoLaR]

Ive never seen anyone "turn fight" with a 262, not saying it doesnt happen.  Explain "crossing shot theory". or does that give up the big secret.

Its only perks man. Ill turn fight with almost anything in a 262. I could care less these days. Grizz and I use to do it all the time when winging.

Tell ya what. Go offline with one. Get it going about 200 throw full flaps and sling the bellybutton end around. Thats the old m00t bellybutton slide move.

[BiPoLaR]

Oh they might turn, but it'll be a ways out. I wish I could get a 262 to turn with me more often. Grizz is a good shot and if you watch his films, he flings the nose to throw a tater at you.  I'm starting to notice that about the 109 sticks.  

Taters = all about angles.

[Lusche]

And is the fuel burn/capacity correct? 

Yes, it is. I went through this in some other thread some time ago
MA (FB 2.0) 262 endurance is only about 20 minutes on the deck at full throttle, but you can extend endurance a lot by climbing to altitude and throttling back.

[TonyJoey]

262s are fun once in a while to burn excess perks. For the tater-challenged, like myself, sneaking in NOE, popping up to blast someone taking off, and rinsing and repeating is an easy way for kills. Landing is the tough part...

[TnDep]

author=grumpy37 link=topic=291927.msg3716040#msg3716040 date=1277943764]
Ive never seen anyone "turn fight" with a 262, not saying it doesnt happen.  Explain "crossing shot theory". or does that give up the big secret.

Crossing Shot-

Of course this is my definition but I believe others will agree

First how far is the con in front of you how much speed does he have?
When he starts to turn, you turn that direction and pull hard getting ahead of him by lead pursuit to a position where you know a approx. 200 yard crossing shot will be available.  After your in this position you have to do several things:

1. Again estimate there speed
2. Put your piper in front of where the prop will be or as close as possible
3. Fire before the plane arrives figuring the speed of the bullet making it arrive at the same time the plane does


Harder then you think it is, Grizz is one of the best at this just try it

I've been working on this but it's hard for a old man to learn new tricks 

[Ack-Ack]

As long as you're good at deflection and quick snap shots, the cannon on the ME 262 isn't hard to get kills with.


ack-ack

[kvuo75]

my preferred 262 method is to dive on a set of lancs from 5-10k alt advantage from lanc's 11 oclock, throttle off, realize im now about the lanc's 9 oclock, still too fast, yank it,  get 600 yds realize the spuds are missing (already half gone), yank it even more, and collide with a drone.  

If I got one lanc, I'm lucky  

[321BAR]

262s are fun once in a while to burn excess perks. For the tater-challenged, like myself, sneaking in NOE, popping up to blast someone taking off, and rinsing and repeating is an easy way for kills. Landing is the tough part...

pull off a low alt furball while you're in the 262 there was 4 allies and 6 enemies, i rolling scissored a p51D at one time in order to overtake him when he got on my 6... he was a bad pilot though, he shoulda had me

[pluck]

262's are easily dispatched with superior number prowress.  You should always fly a 262 when you want to vulch.  That is when they are most effective.  It is a highly overated plane, and in no way should be used to fend off the horde because of it's vulnerabilites.  If you fly the 262, you are a score umm "potato?" 

[TnDep]

My opinion heres what it boils down to:

Only a handful can fly the 262 and get 10+ kills almost everytime making the perks worth the flight.  This is itself does 2 things

1.Makes people complain about the ones who fly it so well or

2. Make people want to take the plane out of the set or give them there own arena

 

Well it's the truth and I'm one that keeps on practicing with them.  I'm normally good for about 3 kills right now in one and miss the other 10 shots but you'll never see me complain about a 262 because it takes skill to fly well.  Just get use to it or practice to get better in the plane.  The perks of about 200 on average is plenty for the perks that it costs.  Because the ones who fly it well isn't going to lose many of them anyway so if your upping the perks on the plane the only people you are hurting is the ones complaining to begin with - so this thread is pointless!

[grumpy37]

Ok so here is a question then.....  If the 262 cost half as much as it does now considering by what  has been said that only very few can really use its potential would it make a difference in game play?

[TW9]

Well it's the truth and I'm one that keeps on practicing with them.  I'm normally good for about 3 kills right now in one and miss the other 10 shots but you'll never see me complain about a 262 because it takes skill to fly well.  Just get use to it or practice to get better in the plane.  The perks of about 200 on average is plenty for the perks that it costs.  Because the ones who fly it well isn't going to lose many of them anyway so if your upping the perks on the plane the only people you are hurting is the ones complaining to begin with - so this thread is pointless!

Are you shooting all guns at once? I just use 2 at a time. 4 is overkill unless attacking bombers. Typically I'll run out of fuel well before im out of ammo. Unless of course it's a good run