1500m Fuel Gauge + EZ42 Shot

[Leo Showers]

I've been messing around with the Dora, while it's pretty fun I'm finding practicing fighting against the AI pretty weird, I suppose I'm not getting what I'm suppose to be doing when using the Fw-190. I'm trying to energy fight, but actually tracking and getting to the shooting position is just pretty awkward, especially with the reticle hovering over the front bar, but that's not actually my complaint.

 

Currently I'm becoming victim of trick shots by AI P-51s, all these shots are actually hitting me forward of the cockpit and disabling the fuel gauge and the EZ42. I'd put it down to luck but it's happened 4 times now, and the best part was a 1500m trick shot, landing one round into the fuel gauge/EZ-42.

 

I get the principle that is energy fighting, and this is the first plane in DCS that I'm really struggling to get a grip on, but are their any tips for AI fighting? Players seem to be a bit easier, but yeah.

1500m shot.trk

[WinterH]

AI does this from any plane, from a ridiculous angle and ridiculous distance they'll squueze their trigger for micro second, letting out a 2-3 round burst, all of which strike home on some specific part of our aricraft :)

 

On the flipside though, they seem to be relatively inept at landing a continous, decisive killing burst on us.

 

I think I lost EZ 42 only once or twice but to my surprise, for some reason, I've found i can still hit stuff when it's gone, even if with wasting much more ammo.

[Aginor]

That's because of the guns in the nose, they really help you hitting because you have less of a convergence problem. Allied pilots noticed that in the P-38, and you can feel it in the F-86 as well.

[WinterH]

Yup, I have long standing preference toward centered gun installations rather than on wing. Feels so much better for either air combat or strafing.

 

While F-86 has similar guns to P-51 with somewhat faster firing rate, you can still feel in sim it has quite superior firepower. It is a more stable gun platform for one, and you have all guns tightly packed around nose, and lastly there is the better rate of fire, yet with still less recoil effect.