Old Timer Problems

[Shifty]

I was wondering if any of you other creakers were encountering vison problems while flying AH? I've been doing the on-line sim thing for years. The past two years have really been hard. I am constantly missing aircraft that I should be shreding with my 50 cals.

My trouble starts when the guy goes to the deck, especially on a map with a lot of hills. I can be d-200 and cannot see the plane. My eyes seem to focus on the icon or my own tracers, but cannot pick out the enemy plane. I start spraying and praying instead of aiming. The majority of my kills come when a guy climbs or a turning climb where I have him siloueted against the sky. I never miss those shots, but put terra ferma in front of my target and I just can't see him, much less hit him.

I turn 49 in a couple of months, and I have middle aged eyesight. I can see fine from three feet away and furthur, but up close everything is fuzzy. In fact I use reading glasses when flying. I am thinking of going to a bigger monitor to see if that helps. I gave up rugby at age 30, paintball at age 45, I don't want to give this up, what's left?  Dinner at 5:30, Wheel of Fortune at 6:00, and bed at 7:00!!:cry

[DREDIOCK]

Your not alone. and at 45 Im not far behind you.
Same thing. Against the deck I find it really hard to make out the planes.

 I actually prefer when my opponent is above me at any point in the fight.

[The Fugitive]

same here, 49 next week, can't see the planes till I crash into them !!!

Was looking into adjusting the focus settings on my monitor, cheaper than new glasses every few months

[pipz]

Im 37 and the same happens to me.I think its only natural that its harder to see the planes with a back drop of multi colored clutter.Againts a solid light blue background its just naturaly easier to see.

Pipz

[Shifty]

I'm using a 19" monitor, and was thinking of going to a 22". Any of you guys using a monitor of that size? I'm wondering if that will help at all.

[seabat]

Every time I fly with Pipz I am blind  

Yeah, 40's and viz problems, usually at dusk and dawn.  Gamma thing really does not help either.

Time for a 40 plus arena!

[doc1kelley]

Oh Yeah, I'm 52 and when I turned 49, I was forced to start wearing bi-focals.  Still hard to see em up close and personal unless I want to tilt my head up and that just doesn't feel natural when you're firing at a target.  My guess is if you are wearing bi-focal specks, you naturally don't tilt the head up and if you don't wear specks, you need em now.

All the Best...
Jay
awDoc1

[Slash27]

I cant hit a damn thing from a dead 6.

[pipz]

Originally posted by seabat
Every time I fly with Pipz I am blind  

Yeah, 40's and viz problems, usually at dusk and dawn.  Gamma thing really does not help either.

Time for a 40 plus arena!

That must be because im such a "Shinning" example of a good guy:aok

Shifty a bigger screen may help but I honestly think its just the background clutter.Thats why stuff has camo ,to hide it.

Pipz

[Engine]

If it makes you guys feel better, I'm 27 and also have trouble firing on planes unless they're silhouetted by the sky. I don't have vision problems, either.

[Shifty]

Originally posted by pipz
That must be because im such a "Shinning" example of a good guy:aok

Shifty a bigger screen may help but I honestly think its just the background clutter.Thats why stuff has camo ,to hide it.

Pipz

Hmmm that means I need to hide your post from Frau Shifty when I tell her I need a bigger monitor tonight.

[storch]

fifty and also suffering from CSS. I'm blind as a bat.

here's a trick I use.

don't use gunsights instead place a sharpie dot onto your monitor screen where your rounds actually strike.  

the best place to determine where this spot is, is to go offline get in an M3 or a jeep, drive up to a tank level the gun and shoot by holding down the "F" key first and then hitting the forward slash key.  this will put your gun on auto fire.  you will see where the rounds randomly strike the target, there will be a pattern.  

determine where you are getting the most strikes at.  approach your monitor sharpie in hand and with your tongue sticking partly out of the corner of your mouth mark the dot on your monitor.  voilá you now have the perfect dust farter sight, the best in the business in my opinion.  this sight works for every toy in the game.

slowly straighten your creaky back and admire your handywork.

caution: actual improvement in hit percentages may vary.  this still doesn't correct parkinson's related wrist twitchies or alzheimer's related forgetting what you are shooting at.

[Goat1]

Originally posted by Shifty
I'm using a 19" monitor, and was thinking of going to a 22". Any of you guys using a monitor of that size? I'm wondering if that will help at all.

I switched from a 15" CRT to a 22" LCD wide screen, helps, but
still use reading glasses.

[pipz]

Originally posted by Shifty
Hmmm that means I need to hide your post from Frau Shifty when I tell her I need a bigger monitor tonight.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!ahhhh a hidden agenda I see.
What a tangled web we wieve when we practise to decieve!!!!

Tell Frau SHifty everything I said was purely propaganda to stop you from shooting me down.I now endorse you up-grade

Pipz

[Shifty]

Originally posted by storch
don't use gunsights instead place a sharpie dot onto your monitor screen where your rounds actually strike.  

 

Won't this have an adverse affect on viewing porn?? Then again that may explain me going blind.

Seriousy.......... Can you turn the gunsights off? I wasn't aware of this. That might be worth a try.


Pipz I think my wife would be all for a new monitor if it meant I quit throwing socks and tennis balls at the cat, after a bad nights flying. Poor cat seems to be the only target I can hit right now.