Sparks
Good work! Glad to hear that your making life miserable for all the bandits out there!
I think my point has been lost in all the bantering back and forth. Here it is again, just so everyone understands.
1. This is a Help and Training Forum, not necessarily an Advanced Techniques Forum.
2. A good background in ballistics and the requirements for the lead angle solution are essential to developing a "feel" for gunnery.
Teaching gunnery in RL is no different than any instruction in any subject. We use a "walk before run" approach. My concern here was that low experience folks would get the wrong idea about how to improve their gunnery. Hearing that others were using the "dot" technique, these newbies might want to jump ahead to that technique without getting a good grounding in the basics.
Because without that grounding, use of the "dot" sight is going to be a frustrating experience for the new guy. In real life, we don't put 16 year old new drivers behind the wheel of a Dodge Viper and expect them to operate it the way it was designed to be driven. If we did, it's true that they would eventually figure it out...but that's no way to have folks learn.
Having said all of that...what is the bottom line?
I use the dot sight too. That's why I was able to post one as quickly as I did. But, I don't teach it or recommend it unless I know the recipient has the training to understand how to use it.
Andy
