Using gyro sight for strafing

[streakeagle]

Contrary to the manual, I leave the gyro sight enabled for air-to-ground strafing with the guns. As with rockets and bombs, I hold the electrical interlock button in until I am pretty close to stable on the descent line to the target, release the interlock, then smoothly move to get the sight on the target. I am hitting with almost laser precision.

 

Trucks, AAA, and even light armor usually get smoked in single passes with relatively short bursts. I also use only 2 guns at a time to extend firing time.

 

I am not quite as accurate with rockets, but not too bad. It usually takes me 2-4 rockets to hit a target, but when I am down to one rocket and get in close, I usually get the job done.

 

I still haven't figured out how to consistently get bombs to go where I want whether using auto or manual techniques. I typically hit a little short. I really, really want to kill that diesel sub in the First Jet Strike Fighter mission. It seems impervious to 0.50 cal and I can't get my bombs close enough. The AAA that surrounds it... dead meat! I can't seem to get my wingmen to engage the sub. Since I take care of everything else for them, you would think the least they could do is empty their bombs and rockets into the sub.

[Kev2go]

Contrary to the manual, I leave the gyro sight enabled for air-to-ground strafing with the guns. As with rockets and bombs, I hold the electrical interlock button in until I am pretty close to stable on the descent line to the target, release the interlock, then smoothly move to get the sight on the target. I am hitting with almost laser precision.

 

Trucks, AAA, and even light armor usually get smoked in single passes with relatively short bursts. I also use only 2 guns at a time to extend firing time.

 

I am not quite as accurate with rockets, but not too bad. It usually takes me 2-4 rockets to hit a target, but when I am down to one rocket and get in close, I usually get the job done.

 

I still haven't figured out how to consistently get bombs to go where I want whether using auto or manual techniques. I typically hit a little short. I really, really want to kill that diesel sub in the First Jet Strike Fighter mission. It seems impervious to 0.50 cal and I can't get my bombs close enough. The AAA that surrounds it... dead meat! I can't seem to get my wingmen to engage the sub. Since I take care of everything else for them, you would think the least they could do is empty their bombs and rockets into the sub.

 

 

what helps me is single release bombs.

 

 

i release 1 then second bomb, so first bomb lands just short of target, and then second 1 lands generally on target.

 

 

i like to use automatic bombing system, although i still manual release. that that method works for me.