BF2S Forums Dog Fight Tips.

Fly in Bomb mode the majority of the time. To do this, press the number 2 or whatever key you have it bound to. Check the Options -> Controls menu to be sure. This will let you spot the ground targets since it will put a nice big box / triangle around them. This will also help your dogfighting since you can sneak up on an enemy jet without giving them the tell-tale missle lock tone.

As far as losing enemy planes, just fly erratic as hell, and do lots of loops with hard turns. On maps that aren't coated in a dense cloud layer, you can also fly straight towards the sun, which will cause your opponent to lose sight of you.

I find it better when your bombing to start high, find the target and slope down towards them. This elimates the bombing spread when your flying level.  I find it easier to shoot someone down with the gun. You'll never hit a target with a missle when its making a hard turn. I almost never use my missles unless I know their out of afterburners and flares. When your following someone leave some space, this allows you to follow him alot better and match his moves.  If your right on his ass, you'll lose him shortly.  To counter those kids who fly out of control, I just wait to they re-arm and shoot them down with using the gun first and then switching to my missles really quickly.

when your close, and u kno he is out of flares. just shoot a missle without locking. (be sure there is no air target of your own team nearby)

Ok, to answer your actual questions in reverse order:

Bomber view... I think they just mean your sights when you have the bombs selected.  When selected, you will see either an upsidedown "T" or an upsidedown "t" depending on your team.  Whatever you are trying to shoot at (be it a square on US or a triangle) you will want the target at the exact cross of the "t or T".  The whole concept of it is to compensate for your speed and angle.  If you do this, you will hit most of the time.  And to back up a second, when I say you will see a "tee", I mean it will be at the bottom of your HUD.  It's an actual part of you normal confusing shit that's blocking your view.

Evading in dogfights... I've been playing many LAN games as well as expert on single player and I can only tell you this:  If you want to aim and evade in the same jet, you will need to throw away your joystick.  I know I will get "flamed" for this but it's true.  The joystick fan club will tell you that you need the precise control, but if you want to evade... you don't want to mess with analog controls.  I have tried both and I have only been undefeated with the good ol' keyboard.  Screw the mouse as well.  Just keyboard.

Killing others in a dogfight... Hmmmm, I never really needed to.  If you can evade and kill ground units at the same time, you don't need to kill the other jet.  He is busy trying to kill you and you are busy killing his buddies... you see where I'm going with this?  Why kill his dumb ass and let some other (better) plane whore take his seat.  Keep his jet occupied with you while you kill his team and your team will thank you.  That's one less jet that's bombing your buddies.

On "Does FilthCuervo Ever Fly Jets?"... very rarely.  But I know what I'm talking about because I do too well when I'm in one.  I have my own fun system where I start at the top of the kits then I go one kit down every time I need to respawn... when I get to the bottom, I go for a plane.  It does well for "team work" points.

My suggestion would be to dogfight in BF1942. It may sound rediculous but it is what worked for me. Even with a joysick in BF2 (I'm typically a keyboare *no mouse* flyer), I would never be able to hit their plane. But after going into 1942 and learning how to stay on the tail of a computer player for minutes on end, it has enhanced my BF2 flying skills.

fdcp_elmo wrote:

answer to stupid questions: stats padding is in a wrong way getting points. you take 2 US, 1 mec and a good hiding spot far from the front

the mec guy kills a US and the other US revives him and mec kills again and US revives again. this way the US medic and the MEC get a LOT points without effort. the victim US keeps 0 points and 0 deaths (due reviving)

a n00b tube is the grenade launcher from the assault. because it is instant death people hate it and named it n00b tube

About the MATOL\Grenade Launcher, in real life it only explodes after 15 meters in the air.
For example, in the game you can suicide with it and use it close combat.
In real life not so I don't understand why didn't someone write a letter to EA or something, except being not realistic (which I don't care much about) it's too easy kill. When I need high score I use it too, I admit, but people always use assault because of this, so for the sake of balance make it not explode before some length.