Not that I'm BnZ, but I found a lot of inaccurate statements in your reply.
I suppose I could go back to flying a poni or take up the D9 and run around picking and HOing and running away from everyone through furballs if that's all you need BnZ. Yes it would increase my hit% dramatically.
Shooting during high speed passes is, overall, harder than shooting while flying at lower speeds (unless you only hunt bombers). You have much less of a timeframe to correct shots and the closure rates are typically much, much higher, allowing less time to set up a shot and aim accurately.
I just is not interested in measuring my cartoon game manhood that way like some are fixated on. Neither does that negate Hitech's physics or that he programed his physics for gunnery so that the 100mph principle works in the game as it did in WW2. Internet willing.
I don't think BnZ or anyone else challenged the physics of the game. On the contrary, the physics of the game are what make gunnery repeatable and predictable. That being said, you seem to approach it with a level of technicality that is somewhat unnecessary and inefficient.
Pilots in WWII used the training methods you outlined for numerous reasons, the primary being that they had few, if any, effective ways of improving their gunnery against dynamic targets without fighting them firsthand. Therefore, they dissected the mechanics of shooting and memorized them, and trained and trained and trained for the real thing until it happened. And even then, most of them were poor shots.
In this game, you don't have to use the 100mph principle - you can simply learn to guesstimate distance and lead correctly. There's no need for ad naseum discussions of physics when you can simply jump in a plane and practice first hand in the TA. Is there some value in the 100mph rule? Sure, but it's impractical in the majority of shooting scenarios.
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Aerial gunnery is 90 percent instinct and 10 percent aim."
— Captain Frederick C. Libby, RFC.
Ever wondered how Messiah lands so many kills regularly? He was one of my testers for 8 generations of ACM gunsights while I was developing them. He's used them so long that now, I think he doesn't even use a gunsight from the last time we talked about it. I think semp still uses a Gen1 or Gen3 but, he never takes his scoring off attack for his poni and pretty much only flys that these days.
What does Messiah or Semp have to do with anything? I don't think I've seen a backwards argument such as this in a long time. You're taking credit for other players' success (or lack of it) and then implying that it's primarily because of your gunsights. Not only is your statement highly presumptuous, it's logically flawed. Correlation does not imply causation. If your gunsights are so good, why don't you use your own statistics as a testament to their effectiveness?
And further, how is the ability to not to use gunsights relevant? If anything, it only proves that shooting is primarily instinct, not strict science., I don't my use gunsight for probably 20% of my kills (example:
click). Does it have anything to do with the gunsights I use? Nope - it's simply understanding angles and trajectories. See the quote by Cpt. Frederick above.
I'm sorry BnZ that you don't like the messenger. Elitism won't trump the physics no matter how long you hold your fingers in your ears.
Yet again, no one questioned physics. In fact, I'm not even sure why you keep stating that - perhaps you wish that was true? The only thing here that I saw that remotely challenged in your posts was your method of teaching someone to shoot.
