Is there anyway of..

[angels10]

 Nice trick is there a list of these tricks somewhere online?  No wonder ima getting my but kicked, if I only knew.

[Anaxogoras]

It's not the reason for why you're getting shot down, but it does give people who already shoot well an advantage they don't need.

Another trick is to turn off your engine sound for ground vehicles, and turn up the sounds for enemies.  That way you can move and still hear where they are.

Turning off skins is another ground vehicle trick because it makes all the panzers and tigers bright orange.

I'm sure there are others but I can't think of them now.

[Ack-Ack]

I've got my gunsight raised as in the first image that Anaxogoras posted, don't think it really give me that much, if any, edge over anyone else. 


ack-ack

[Anaxogoras]

I've got my gunsight raised as in the first image that Anaxogoras posted, don't think it really give me that much, if any, edge over anyone else. 


ack-ack

I also have mine raised up like the first image.  That's my default view for the mossie, in fact.  I adjust my forward view up a little but always use the standard gunsight for aiming.

[Lusche]

Because I am a TrackIr user, my "standard" 12 view is like in Anaxagoras second pic, because my head position is constantly moving around..shifting left, right, up, down as I actually move my head. When I'm about to shoot, I just assume somewhat crouched forward position, I'm literally bringing my eye to the gunsight. Other than that I often don't see the crosshairs at all. (And in very close quarter doghfights, I frequently don't even care to use the gunsight at all.)

[Dano]

If you stay away from the front of those pointy things on the airplanes (guns), or at least stay ahead of the pointy things, and you don't really have to worry about any "tricks".
Just my $.02 worth. 

[bj229r]

Id be happy just being able to toggle mouse view on and off

(let me rephrase, the mouse ICON)

[dunnrite]

In some aircraft you can raise your point of view up so that the center of your screen (where your bullets go) is above the gunsight, so that you can't even see the crosshair anymore.  That would seem to make raising your view pointless for gunnery, but the mouse can be used as a gunsight that's just as effective as the standard gunsight of the aircraft.  Before raising the view up, the player moves the point of the cursor over the crosshairs, and holds it in place with the 'h' key.  Then he can raise his view up over the standard gunsight, and still have a point of reference with an over-the-nose view for deflection shooting that can only be compared to having your face pressed up against the front panel of the canopy.

First you set the cursor over the center point of the gunsight:
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Then you move your view up and over the nose of the aircraft:
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And voila...  The only task that's left is to change the mouse's appearance to a dot, or something that looks more like an aiming reference.

And it magically changes a B24 into a P51

[Morpheus]

gamy crap.

Anyone care to tell this dude he's playing a game?

[Wingnutt]

Anyone care to tell this dude he's playing a game?

dude, I know dude, so its already unrealistic enough without goofy crap like aiming with your mouse pointer... dude.

[Tr0jan]

 

I created a whine fest 

[Badboy]

gamy crap.

Actually, it's more realistic than you would think. I read that when the first lead computing gun-sights came out, they weren't that good. They made the poor shots into average shots, but they also made the good shots average, so guys who were already great shots were frustrated and created their own aiming point by sticking their gum on the canopy glass. So just think of the mouse pointer as a piece of gum that you are using to create an aiming point, just as the best pilots did

Badboy

[Wingnutt]

Actually, it's more realistic than you would think. I read that when the first lead computing gun-sights came out, they weren't that good. They made the poor shots into average shots, but they also made the good shots average, so guys who were already great shots were frustrated and created their own aiming point by sticking their gum on the canopy glass. So just think of the mouse pointer as a piece of gum that you are using to create an aiming point, just as the best pilots did

Badboy

did they also sit a foot higher on a stack of books or something.. because that's the effect what is being discussed here has.

[texastc316]

couldn't the seats be adjusted?

[Wingnutt]

couldn't the seats be adjusted?

not to where your forehead was smashed against the top of the canopy.