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Use QMB - Set up two to fight with - make their skill level low to start with
Then make them better and better - When you can beat both then your ready to take on the
online group.
It also helps to have a wingman,but online you dont find many that work
as a team.
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Do some reading...
Robert Shaw's book "Fighter Combat" is an excellent start.
Rent and watch the series "Dog Fights" from the History Channel.
They give excellent play by play observations. You'll learn a lot by seeing the maneuvers actually executed. Even if it is computer generated.
Though I fly through the valley of death, I will fear no evil.....
For I am the meanest SOB in the valley!
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To be a good dogfighter you need to practise a lot. I've learned my tricks with just flying.
Yes, these movies are propagandashit, but you
the American Propaganda, they have the pilots talking about what happen, hint hint they survived the war like it or not, walk in their boots before you run your mouth, o yeah i spent 24 years in the worlds finest navy
"Angles and Airspeed", would help you out quite a bit.
Blue Skies, Happy Landings.
-Doodle
1. Although it's tempting to jump around from plane to plane, choose one fighter that appeals to you and really learn to fly it well. Although you might be tempted by some of the fast, heavily-armed late war fighters, you'll probably find it less frustrating if you choose a relatively slow-moving, single-engined plane with decent handling and stall behavior, something like the A6M2, B-239, F4F, IAR 80 or Hawk 75/P-36.
2. Practice your gunnery obsessively. To start, practice shooting friendly planes in the Quick Mission Builder (they don't maneuver when you shoot them). For a start, try to get as close behind them as you can, without overshooting, before you open fire. Try to shoot from 200 meters or less. Concentrate on accuracy and the speed at which you can line up your shoots. As you feel more comfortable, practice against a single enemy novice enemy fighter, of the same type as your plane, and try to follow it as it maneuvers. Increase the number and skill of the enemy as you get better.
There is a program called "snipers corner" which will tell you where you should aim to hit a plane moving at a certain speed and angle at a particular distance. It can be helpful to give you the basics of deflection shooting.
You can also determine where your shots are hitting by setting "Arcade = 1" in your conf.ini. When you score a hit with arcade mode on, an arrow will appear to be stuck into the enemy plane.
3. To improve your "situational awareness" try flying with the cockpit view off and the map view turned on, but set so that you can see enemy planes. Then set the map view so that it is just focused on on you immediate area. The combination of "arrows" at the edges of your viewscreen and the enemy planes shown in relationship to your plane on the map will give you a sense of where the enemy planes are relative to you. You can also use the padlock view to "track" a particular enemy.
4. During fights against multiple opponents, pause the game at regular intervals and pan around your airplane using the external view, to give you a sense of where your plane is to the enemy. Also use the external view to look at your opponents, especially when you're shooting at them. You can tell by the location of your tracers relative to the enemy if you're shots are hitting (along with the arrows from the arcade mode, if you're using it). After a fight, review tracks to analyze your performance.
As you gain confidence and skill, start turning the training aids off. The first to go should be the no cockpit view. Next try flying without the map to assist you. Finally, turn off the arcade mode and resist the temptation to use external views to view your opponent.
right, that "old man" put REAL .50cal rounds into REAL 109s, something we here could only dream about. When ever I see a WWII vet I stop and thank them (ok, not every single time, but as much as possible) without them, our world would be much different, probably for the worse.
hock: i like il-2 as much as you do,but dogfights in il-2 and in real life were different.in real life pilot in DF wouldnt make such good turns,avoid bulets by flyin straight when aircraft is upsidown?!, Make all that hard positive or neg. G turns?!get out easily from blackouts by changing flaps and reducing throotle in blackout moment?!.thats bullshit if u exuse!Aces were men who shootdown i think 3< enemy arcrfts...and if u look at guncams,aircraft that they MOSTLY SDOWN were flyin straight!