Andy
I've followed your advice, printed out, and read every article you've ever written. Over the years your articles have changed my flight sim flying tremendously. You are someone I have always held in high regard. I am, however, somewhat taken by surprise at your response to my post indicating that I should keep my opinions to myself.
When SlpShot posted
"If anybody has any good gunsights that they think work for the planes that they fly in AH, and could explain what the gunsight accomplishes, I would love to see them. "
I, like most of the others who posted here, sent along the two sights I like to use, and the instructions on how I use them. These were my opinions, just like the opinions of others posting here.
My opinions come from flying online flight sims since they started back in the early days of the first Red Baron, through the first Airwarrior on Genie, later Warbirds, then Airwarrior again, and now Aces High. I would estimated some 10 to 15 years at least. Over these years of sim flying I tried numerous sights, including some of those posted here.
What I found from my experience, and that length of experience should count for at least something, is that online sims give the most important piece of information that most gunsights are trying to achieve. They give you a visual reading of the range to the enemy plane. Now when I flew with the sights loaded with angles and lines to help line up on the target and estimate the range that is already given in a flight sim, I found the many lines and arcs blocked my visual clues to the target. They often blocked out the range indicator, or blocked a clear view of just what the target was doing. As a result I, like some others who have posted here, found the less cluttered gunsight was the best for me.
For ground attacks I found the gunsight I use to be the best one around, especially considering that I could close a field Vehicle Hangar almost 100% of the time in one pass back when our squad routinely made such attacks.
Naturally, I wanted to pass on my opinion, and the sights I used, just as SlpShot had requested in his original post. I'm sure SlpShot will read your article, and probably try a few of the sights that have been posted here. One, or two, of these gunsights will turnout to be just what he was looking for. I took special care to keep my post as positive as possible. When I read your reply indicating that I should keep my opinions to myself, frankly, I was a bit hurt at having received such a reply from the guy I admired so very much.
I still hold you in high regard, and look forward to reading your each and every article as soon they are released. I can only hope that you read something into my post that I did not intend to be there. I know that we, and others here, disagree on the use of certain gunsights, but I wouldn't think of implying that you must still believe that "it really was Santa Clause that ate the cookies" simply because you don't agree with me.
Ranger Bob