Calculating Shooting Deflection

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

Well some of the finest flyers on PS3 started in Arcade and learned the deflection angles there and took those skills onto Realistic and Sim where they picked up the angles very quickly so it cant be all fire & sweep. Actually the ammount of damage the planes take in Arcade means you need to keep adjusting your firing angles which makes it a good place to start.

a.k.a. fire & sweep.

I'm talking about the type of deflection shooting skill you need in Boom & zoom type high speed attacks were the target is flying across your path and you get one split second chance to get the hits before you pass him by. And you only have a few seconds worth of ammo that you want to last multiple booms. That is were you need real deflection skill and practiced calculation of speed and distance.