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Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow
Concerning the canons of the 109 my observation is that in 90% of all cases when I give a broadside shot (aspect angle 90% seeing nearly top view of target plane) with canons at a close target (60m) or medium distant target (100-130m) my canons just don't hit. For me it is basically impossible to score a hit with canons by letting a target fly through my bullet stream. I only score very few hits with my machine guns.
Somehow I have some doubts if the cadence is correctly modelled. I may accept that few cannon rounds hit - perhaps only one or two and that occasionally the target just flies through. But really almost in any case? This seems to me very strange.
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It's sad that the track recording function is broken at the moment because I used to enjoy using ntrks to check my deflection shooting in 1946.
However my experience with Cliffs is that the cannons are working just fine. I can usually hit targets at 90-degrees angle-off (i.e. crossing in front of my guns perpendicularly, my view being of the top of his aircraft). But I find I have to give more lead than I used to in 1946, and I rarely take off the target's wings with these snapshots. Most of my online victories in such situations have been pilot- or engine-kills. Gunnery has always been the weakest part of my game, so I find to really take someone's wings off I need a decently-long burst (at least in this game... Mk 108s from 1946 are different). It might be the ammo I'm loading *shrug*
I've never had the target fly through my bullet stream and seemingly pass between rounds unless I was pulling a lot of G's as I was firing. In my experience that is the key: To unload your aircraft before pulling the trigger.
If you were to watch your aircraft from the side as you fire, and draw lines where your rounds went, you want the picture to look like a single spike, not a mohawk.