Improve your aiming/marksman skills

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Originally Posted by hegykc

Before I scare away people with some more complicated stuff, here's a picture:





Now, something more complicated:

This are the harmonization and gun convergences for the P-51 mustang.

• No.1 guns converge at 1,000 feet / at sight line (inboard)
• No.2 guns converge at 1,100 feet / 11 inches below sight line (middle)
• No.3 guns converge at 1,200 feet / 18 inches above sight line (outboard)

From that you can see that the guns not only don't meet at the same convergence horizontally, but not even vertically.



I managed to model .303 caliber bullet trajectories in one of my CAD programs, and I tried to copy the same pattern seen in the P-51 charts. This harmonization pattern is there for a reason, it's not as simple as setting a one point convergence.

Spitfire/Hurricane convergences in the picture should greatly improve kill/damage probabilities for pilots that are not excellent marksmen.

I do not have a joystick at the moment so I need volunteers to test this out.
Preferably pilots who are flying online for a while now, and know their kill ratio and skill level. To see if there will be any improvement.

I put this in the main forum so that as many people as possible see it, because it should really make things easier for the average pilot reading through the front page mainly.

150 yards harmonization, and more advanced patterns coming up..

This is interesting, but I do not quite understand your pics. The values on the left side are the convergence settings in yards or meters in the Clod user interface for gun convergence? That is what is written there as horizontally should be put as horizontally in the game (vertical value likewise)?

The sight convergence is what I have to set my gun convergence distance (again in yards and meters?) and then I have to approach the plane to the indicated distance in order to achieve the hit area pattern as indicated in the pic? Please help a confused pilot.