My question is, how do I approach on ground targets and shoot them down the right way.
I didn´t find anything special in the game´s handbook, on this forum an anywhere else. Often I find something according to: How to lock on targets, how to shoot, an how work together with your wingman... but I didn´t find anything what tells me how to get myself into the right shootingposition...
I´ve got a handbook for the NVAs, the former eastern-german army, helicopterpilots:
It tells me that there are 3 ways to attack a ground target:
1. from horizontal flight at a certain speed.
-locking on from far away, shooting 1 or 2 targets with guided missiles,
and veering off before you get into the reach of the targets primary
weapon
My question: How fast should i fly? at which altitude should i fly?
2. form fixed position up inthe air. (this what i mostly do right now, but it feels unrealistic and most important: I´m a sitting duck for every enemy, especially handheld sams, and so i often get shot down)
My question: how do i use cover? Should i first store the ground targets position in my datalink and after popping-up i use the datalinks ingress-function and shoot at them(better ideas?) How do I prevent beeing shot my behind?
3. from diving towards the target
-as I unstood this: this should only be done when the weapon i chose needs to be dropped (for example bombs) or i want to improve my shooting skills with fixed gun in order to get the real ww2-feeling ;-)
Is there anybody who give me same hints on 1. and 2. and when to use the one or the other? Are there some training tracks or videos or texts who can explain it to me.
Or am i completly wrong and it works completely different... please tell me
Thx in advance,
Christian