the default view on any plane is NOT look front. If you press look front the view will not change because you have not defined it. Try pressing look front, move the view and save it. If you release the button the view will come back to default view, if you press the button it will go the view you save just before.
one of the trainers told me that all planes default view was looking straight ahead 12 o'clock without having to program any keys. you open with saying "the default view on any plane is NOT look front." but you finish up with "If you release the button the view will come back to default view," i have heard of some who insist that one should use the "over and right or left of the nose positioning" of their numpad 8 key, but that was also told to me by the trainers that it was a personal preference. some trainers also said that using the zoom way in to shoot is a personal preference and can become a bad habit by limiting your field of view, can cause one to get locked in to target fixation and makes it hard to use other views for SA when in zoom in mode and in a fight.
the ones who use the shooting while below the nose by using the over and right of nose view usually use their tracers to walk the bullets to their target which is more of a crutch rather than practicing and learning true deflection shooting when the enemyred is below the nose. could one of the trainers give us some clues or info regarding these matters
i like the idea of going to da lake and seeing howlong you can survive dodging others with no guns to shoot back, sounds like elementary school dodge ball where they formed the circle and you was in the middle dodging the ball. not like high school where you had 2 teams one on each side.
i was taught that the most important views while fighting are the following forward, forward up, up, back up, back, left, right with secondary important views being back up right, back up left , right up , left up. learn to read your con in your particular viewed position and which way your con is moving in relation to that particular view, this is very important i was told
trainers Widewing, Murdr, TC, Badboy, Ren taught me alot