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Title: help please?
Post by: Nemisis on July 15, 2010, 01:29:36 PM
OK, took about a week vacation from AH, and my gunnery skill dropped to the point of irrelevancy. I can't get it back up to par, any tips besides shooting the offline drones?
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: fbWldcat on July 15, 2010, 01:30:48 PM
.target always helps me at least a bit, gets me to remember where my lead lands.
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: uptown on July 15, 2010, 02:20:50 PM
Go to DA lake. Fast action, lots of targets.
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Yeager on July 15, 2010, 02:57:28 PM
Its just a guess but try this: make a concerted effort to shoot all over, around, and under your target.  The brains will more quickly "dial in" that way.
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Ack-Ack on July 15, 2010, 05:18:30 PM
Practice.

ack-ack
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: whiteman on July 15, 2010, 05:32:25 PM
shooting at more targets has always helped me.
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Ardy123 on July 15, 2010, 05:32:36 PM
close your eyes and say 'boom'!

no seriously, visualize the shot in your mind before you take it, start thinking one step ahead, be like... ok I'm gonna reverse and hes going to pull up here, and i'm gonna take the shot, don't react, you'll react to late.
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: guncrasher on July 15, 2010, 06:11:56 PM
Drink alcohol or maybe some medication that has. Warning regarding heavy machinery.  Then accuracy won't really matter and the level of happyness increased.


Semp
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Becinhu on July 15, 2010, 06:16:50 PM
DO you have kids? If so randomly smack them as they walk by. No it won't help your gunnery, but it'll keep the kids in line. :bolt:
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Jayhawk on July 15, 2010, 06:18:05 PM
DO you have kids? If so randomly smack them as they walk by. No it won't help your gunnery, but it'll keep the kids in line. :bolt:

 :huh

oh well

 :rofl
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Nemisis on July 15, 2010, 06:20:40 PM
I'm 16, so no, I don't have any kids (that I know of).

And guncrasher, are you just trying to get rid of one more person who knows which way is up (saw a newb roll over, lawndart, and then exclaim 'I hit the sky' upon reupping  :rofl :rofl :rofl. He was dead serious too  :confused:)?
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: fbWldcat on July 15, 2010, 09:07:49 PM
(that I know of).


 :rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Ack-Ack on July 15, 2010, 09:38:45 PM
I'm 16, so no, I don't have any kids (that I know of).


knuckle children don't count.


ack-ack
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: AWwrgwy on July 15, 2010, 09:41:44 PM
TA.

Turn on the LCS and chase somebody around.  That'll give you an idea of where to shoot.  Actually hitting anything is up to you.


wrongway
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: guncrasher on July 16, 2010, 12:54:11 AM
I'm 16, so no, I don't have any kids (that I know of).

And guncrasher, are you just trying to get rid of one more person who knows which way is up (saw a newb roll over, lawndart, and then exclaim 'I hit the sky' upon reupping  :rofl :rofl :rofl. He was dead serious too  :confused:)?

nemisis be a man and steal from your parents liquor cabinet like we all did    :cheers: :old:.

semp
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: fbWldcat on July 16, 2010, 07:23:37 AM
Methinks someone has been listening to "Night Moves" by Bob Seger.  :noid

 :lol
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Ghosth on July 16, 2010, 07:33:08 AM
Nemisis  TA, lead computing gunsight on for half an hour (control tab to enable, point gunsight at target, hit tab again to lock)

While there work on ACM while your at it.

If you ask nicely you might even get someone to up a hvy bomber to let you shoot at.
If you do concentrate on setting up for high/low 3-9 line passes.
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: MickDono on July 16, 2010, 08:04:20 AM
haha knuckle children   :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: HawkerMKII on July 16, 2010, 08:36:10 AM
Look for that big giant dar bar, up your favorite :airplane: climb climb climb, get nice and lined on on the six, then :O the 91st, then go down in flames :t
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: sky25 on July 16, 2010, 03:53:20 PM
OK, took about a week vacation from AH, and my gunnery skill dropped to the point of irrelevancy. I can't get it back up to par, any tips besides shooting the offline drones?

If taking a week off made your gunning sub par and irrelevant. Maybe it was already sub par and irrelevant to begin with.

"You need to man up and become a better pilot."

I think this is what you tell other people in the forums Nemisis..
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: SlapShot on July 16, 2010, 04:15:17 PM
If taking a week off made your gunning sub par and irrelevant. Maybe it was already sub par and irrelevant to begin with.
"You need to man up and become a better pilot."

I think that what you tell other people in the forums Nemisis..

 :rofl ... touche sky ... well done.

It's more like ... "look at me !!! look at me !!! look at me !!! look at me !!! look at me !!!"
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Nemisis on July 16, 2010, 05:24:21 PM
My gunnery wan't what you would call 'great', but I could still hit a non manuvering target at D1000 without TOO much trouble. But now I'm strugeling to hit targets doing token efforts to evade a D600 (couldn't hit Brentlo's K4 with my 190 at D600. And he was mostly trying to extend)
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Ack-Ack on July 16, 2010, 05:30:53 PM
My gunnery wan't what you would call 'great', but I could still hit a non manuvering target at D1000 without TOO much trouble. But now I'm strugeling to hit targets doing token efforts to evade a D600 (couldn't hit Brentlo's K4 with my 190 at D600. And he was mostly trying to extend)

The reason why you weren't a good shot to begin with is your taking shots at 1,000 yards away.  You're wasting about 90% of your ammunition in those kind of shots with very little likelihood of scoring a kill or significant damage.  If you did do any damage or got lucky enough for a kill is because you more likely then not, scored a Golden BB hit.

The only way you're going to improve is to practice.  I know you like to have your hand held and provided with some "trick" you can use that will instantly make you a better shot but it's not going to happen.  You're going to have to work at it to become better.


ack-ack
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Nemisis on July 16, 2010, 05:47:30 PM
I'm asking to see if there is anything such as the LCS (never knew it existed untill now). Some good at least came out of this thread.



And Ack-Ack, I feel your going to start tearing into me, so please either be nice, or leave.
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Ack-Ack on July 16, 2010, 06:47:06 PM
And Ack-Ack, I feel your going to start tearing into me, so please either be nice, or leave.

Translation:  "I feel AKAK is being mean to me because he is speaking the truth and I don't like to hear the truth".

HiTech was right, you are a sniveling brat.


ack-ack
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: MK-84 on July 16, 2010, 07:00:15 PM
I just make it a point to fire at point blank range :)
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Brooke on July 16, 2010, 07:02:21 PM
Yep, I suggest taking your plane up lots at furball lake in the Duelling Arena.

That's how I get the most practice in my ride in the shortest time prior to a scenario.
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: MK-84 on July 16, 2010, 07:27:44 PM
     It also greatly depends on what you are flying.  I've found the tempest and typhoon to be fairly easy to land hits with.  It also really depends on flying style, and how you personally set up your shots, in terms of deflection.  So i would recommend trying several planes and see which ones yield better results for you.

<waits patiently for the inevetible flaming>   ;)
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Ghosth on July 16, 2010, 08:30:10 PM
Ackacks right on the money. If your wasting your time shooting out past 800 you never will improve.

The key is to learn ACM to learn how to get in close, saddle up. Once he's tried everything in his box to throw you and your still there eventually your going to have a 2-300 yard shot where one good burst will rip him to shreds.

Shooting beyond 400 your just wasting ammo. The exception is to pop a short burst of mg's to try to freak him out
enough to make him  turn.

Get in close, then when you think its time to shoot, get in closer.
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Tupac on July 16, 2010, 08:36:26 PM
Translation:  "I feel AKAK is being mean to me because he is speaking the truth and I don't like to hear the truth".

HiTech was right, you are a sniveling brat.


ack-ack

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Title: Re: help please?
Post by: guncrasher on July 16, 2010, 08:39:01 PM
And u guys keep getting suckered into this thread.  Its a joke.


Semp
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: milesobrian on July 16, 2010, 09:05:12 PM
DO you have kids? If so randomly smack them as they walk by. No it won't help your gunnery, but it'll keep the kids in line. :bolt:

+1000

anyone notice when we stoped beating our children the nation has been going down hill....     

correlation vs causation
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Nemisis on July 16, 2010, 11:18:51 PM
No Ack-Ack, I'm saying stop taking shots at me for trying to improve my shooting in time for the scenario. If there's any thing that will let me hit something at D300 with consistency in time for the scenario, I'm gonna use it.

Mk-84, I've been flying the Ki-84, the 109F4/G2 (FSO, and I like the F4), and the 190 when I can't stand the Ki-84's views anymore.


I agree with semp. Its now a joke, and I've learned all the little tricks there are (go to DA lake, and use the LCS).
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: E25280 on July 16, 2010, 11:20:05 PM
Translation:  "I feel AKAK is being mean to me because he is speaking the truth and I don't like to hear the truth".

HiTech was right, you are a sniveling brat.


ack-ack
Sniveling dweeb (reply # 92).

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,291668.92.html
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: sky25 on July 17, 2010, 12:25:24 AM
+1000

anyone notice when we stoped beating our children the nation has been going down hill....     

correlation vs causation
So True. So True :aok :aok
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Ack-Ack on July 17, 2010, 12:47:28 AM
No Ack-Ack, I'm saying stop taking shots at me for trying to improve my shooting in time for the scenario.

Nobody was taking a shot at you, you're just too immature to take advice without getting your panties all bunched up in a wad.  You are the classic definition of a Squeaker.


ack-ack
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: Ghosth on July 17, 2010, 07:53:12 AM
"You are the classic definition of a Squeaker."

Bingo!  We have a winner!

Title: Re: help please?
Post by: MK-84 on July 18, 2010, 08:47:59 AM
And u guys keep getting suckered into this thread.  Its a joke.


Semp
I didn't realize that...
I just read the one about the bombers... :confused:
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: fbWldcat on July 18, 2010, 11:25:37 AM
And now for Family Feud!!!

"What is another word for noob?"

"Immature"

"What is another word or words for a troll?"

"This thread"

Phil, you said "Immature," our survey said... *blllling* 5!
Phil, you said "This thread," our survery said... *blllling* 100!
Title: Re: help please?
Post by: TUK on July 18, 2010, 11:43:00 AM
Can't beat those offline missions with AI that engauges you.. Great tools for gunnery.  Fast to the kill to..  :salute