[nearmiss]

thx aviar I didnt know that! I thought that "my target" was airplane in front of me. 8)

I think when you padlock any enemy aircraft you actually make it the target of "Attack my target"

The purpose of the padlock is basically to keep track of the aircraft you are targeting to kill.

Therefore, if you padlock and tell AI to attack your target... The AI doesn't know you may be after the enemy aircraft right in front of you.

The AI just gets a command to shoot the target you have defined by padlock.

It make sense