How do i kock the pipper?

[T0x1s]

So hard to lock enemy aircrafts when the pipper goes everywhere

[effte]

Assign a button to electrical cage.

[DocSigma]

Yeah.. assign a button on your hotas to the electrical cage command. Unlock the gyro sight, stabalize the pipper by holding down that electrical cage button on your hotas, maneuver the aircraft until the pipper is over the target for at least a second or two and fairly close, release the electrical caging button, and you should see the gunsight start to automatically begin to update itself as your range to the target changes (you have to be pretty close - ~1.5miles - before radar gets makeshift lock). It will not stay fixed on the target but will give - what was considered - accurate firing solutions. You just have to maneuver the aircraft to line that pipper over the target then you should be good. It's not easy since its pretty easy for it to lose any form of radar lock hence losing accurate firing and range solutions being fed to the moving gunsight.

 

It's easy with targets moving in a straight line and at a constant speed, but against targets jinking this way and that changing speeds its easy to break that brief lock you may get. The pipper may seem all over the hud, but it definitely requires you to fly down your target and be patient before you pull the trigger. Its tough to score a high speed deflection hit in the Sabre. Wait it out until your target pulls level to regain energy, then you'll get a more high percentage shot with the pipper holding lock feeding you an accurate firing solution.

Edited November 1, 2014 by DocSigma

[anlq]

Yeah.. assign a button on your hotas to the electrical cage command. Unlock the gyro sight, stabalize the pipper by holding down that electrical cage button on your hotas, maneuver the aircraft until the pipper is over the target for at least a second or two and fairly close, release the electrical caging button, and you should see the gunsight start to automatically begin to update itself as your range to the target changes (you have to be pretty close - ~1.5miles - before radar gets makeshift lock). It will not stay fixed on the target but will give - what was considered - accurate firing solutions. You just have to maneuver the aircraft to line that pipper over the target then you should be good. It's not easy since its pretty easy for it to lose any form of radar lock hence losing accurate firing and range solutions being fed to the moving gunsight.

 

It's easy with targets moving in a straight line and at a constant speed, but against targets jinking this way and that changing speeds its easy to break that brief lock you may get. The pipper may seem all over the hud, but it definitely requires you to fly down your target and be patient before you pull the trigger. Its tough to score a high speed deflection hit in the Sabre. Wait it out until your target pulls level to regain energy, then you'll get a more high percentage shot with the pipper holding lock feeding you an accurate firing solution.

 

Use fixed pipper (caged pipper) because uncaged pipper is useless in a fast dogfight.

[Charly_Owl]

The manual for the F-86 cannot come soon enough. I'm struggling with the gunsight myself.

[kontiuka]

The manual for the F-86 cannot come soon enough. I'm struggling with the gunsight myself.

Plus I think it's a little wonky right now. It doesn't lock anything within a 1000 ft. It didn't work that way originally.