cptkid posted 01-11-99 04:00 PM ET (US)        

I was wondurin' if many of you use trims to hone in on the con that you are chasing all over trying to give a lead enema too? One of my problems (among many) is that I may be d1 to d2 from someone and I have a hard time getting the cross hairs directly set on the con I'm trying to take out. I fire, it goes high, I adjust and I'm too low, or in a turn not only my lead is off but I'm usually shootin high or low relative to the ground. I have a hard time fine tuning where I want to shoot, even if the con is flying relatively straight and level. Yet when someone is on my six I may be trying to manuever all over hell and gone and can never hardly shake them and they usually sign their name all over the ass end of my plane. Do you use a little rudder, aileron and up & down trim to set the cross hairs right where you want them or is your stick setup under configuration tuned to allow for more finite adjustments during flight? I'm using the TM F22/TQS, RCS setup. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

CPTKID (Rough Raiders)

fergus posted 01-11-99 04:09 PM ET (US)            

Its the stick settings in the WB configuration! Set sliders from 50% on the left in equal increments to 100% on the right for pitch and roll.

Yaw is not so important.

If you use too high input across on the first few sliders (100%) you'll jump all over, and if you use too low (0%) you'll have a hard time getting you'r cross-hairs on target, 'cause your stick won't react untill you yank it too much.

Fergus

nrts posted 01-11-99 04:26 PM ET (US)            

Last nite in the ACA I got into a goatrope with another f4f and could not quite get my guns on him. We went round and round a few times but I could not turn inside him.

Finally I remembered to try pitch up-trim and my nose immedietely swung out into lead position and I shot him all to pieces. Trim offers rates *above* what full "stick" deflection can produce.

-nrts-

335thFS

4thFG

Kodiak posted 01-11-99 05:07 PM ET (US)            

Most of the time poor gunnery can be traced to 2 main problems. Pitch scaling and the gunsight.

Scaling. I like to start very soft to start gradually working toward full deflection at max throw. Small steps to start (5,8,13....) and large ones near the end (...85, 100). Think the default scaling is in increments of 10 (10,20,30,40...) Thats too coarse for my setup. Seems to make fine adjustment easier and still allows more than enough stick to black out at speed. Keep experimenting.

Gunsight. Use a custom gunsight. When I went from the default cross to "yoss'" sight my gunnery jumped 10%.

Kodiak III./JG54