You forget I've been playing for one year straight. Given an "Average" player like me a year to practice and learn, pretty sure others can achieve the same level.
I couldn't help myself and did another quick'n'dirty stats check.
The MR Average 148 which I was referring to was based on the whole arena of active player, including the (considerable number of) 2 weekers. So I tried to check how much the 'average' was improving when I reduced the sample to long time players.
The following graph shows the key fighter mode stat averages for 4 different levels:
1) All pilots of tour 148
2) All pilots of tour 148 who have also played the two tours before (which, among on/off players eliminates almost all 2 weekers)
3) All pilots of tour 148 having played at least 4 out of 5 previous tours (the 'regulars' of AH)
4) All pilots of tour 148 that had been around for a
minimum of one year (of course that works only for players who didn't change their pilot id)
Quite rough and with some errors, but will work for my purposes
There's a notable jump after getting rid of the two weekers, but there is not exactly a dramatic improvement after that. Mr Average still get's barely beyond 1 kill every 2 sorties
Oh crap... now it's almost 7am... my wife will kill me
But I think it's a really nice hijack of an otherwise worthless thread