Hey everyone, I just thought it was time to talk about Avaitors, and what it means to be in the air going 400 MPH.
1. When you are infintry and you get a bomb dropped on you by a friendy, DONT PUNNISH!!!! there is nothing more irratating to a pilot when s/he goes down to bomb an enemy armored vehicle (tank, APC, mobile AA and soo on) and accidently hits a friendy. Yes we are sorry to kill a friendly but first of all, why are u next to an armored vehicle (unless your c4 ing or laying mines) at all?! On our bombing screen it does not show foot soldiers, and it is very hard to justify not killing an armor when the oppurtunity presents itself. The only thing that shows is friendly armored vehicles or jeeps. We know how hard and annoying it is to have an armor terrorising you on the ground, trying to either get away from it or flank it, we've all been in that situation. So please please! stop punishing when a friendly bomb happens to lodge itself into your brains then explode.
2. When you see enemy units (anything bigger then infintry or jeeps) on the ground or in the air PLEASE point them out. if a pilot is flying by and you point out a target chances are they will come back right away or when they get the chance to, (if the target goes off the minimap RE SITE IT! ) I know when ever I see someone point out something on the ground I will always bomb it immeadeatly or come back when i have bombs. AND PLEASE WHENEVER YOU SEE AN ENEMY PLANE ESPICALLY point them out its just something of a cortisey when you are in a dog fight and you can't see the enemy's moves, it just might let the good pilots live longer and possibly make it back to base in one piece.
3.(for pilots) when on bombing runs its always good, when you know the general location of an enemy, to go up to at least 150 - 300M and up. I have found its better tho to keep in that general range reason being that you can get almost above the target then go down into a "divebomb." its usually more accurate then just going at 400 MPH over their heads and dropping a payload, as in the bombs will usually not hit your target (tho sometimes it will hit and destroy the target on your first run.)
4. If you ever have missles launched at you its always good to go into an up or down spiral, it is harder for the missles to chase you in this action and will not always hit you. remember the enemy only has 6 heatseaking missles for you, some might already be used up, after 6 you only have to worry about the machine gun and other ground bassed AA turets.
5. It is good to always switch between missle mode and bomb mode, be aware of all enemy targets. also whenever you see a fixed AA gun its good to line up your machine gun and then just fire, even if you dont hit them exactly firing around them usually kills them before they can figure out where u are and fire their measly 2 missles at you which usually miss 1 or both of them. this way you can usually keep the air clean of ground based missles. It is very annoying to a pilot when they have a constant beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep of the missle lock warning. For some pilots this is too much pressure and causes them to leave the area for awhile but for the good ones they will find you and kill you so try and be aware of the kind of pilot your dealing with.
there are always more and better ways to fly and kill while in the air, but alas I am a pilot (not too bad one if i do say so my self) and, am sorry but, i am not going to give away all my secrets but, you dont need to cheat to be a good pilot, and please don't because fellow players don't like it and it can get you into alot of trouble.
have fun and try out some of these new tactics on servers, (you should probably try unranked ones first and just make servers for your self would also teach you how to handle a jet at high speeds but like I said, just have fun.
1. When you are infintry and you get a bomb dropped on you by a friendy, DONT PUNNISH!!!! there is nothing more irratating to a pilot when s/he goes down to bomb an enemy armored vehicle (tank, APC, mobile AA and soo on) and accidently hits a friendy. Yes we are sorry to kill a friendly but first of all, why are u next to an armored vehicle (unless your c4 ing or laying mines) at all?! On our bombing screen it does not show foot soldiers, and it is very hard to justify not killing an armor when the oppurtunity presents itself. The only thing that shows is friendly armored vehicles or jeeps. We know how hard and annoying it is to have an armor terrorising you on the ground, trying to either get away from it or flank it, we've all been in that situation. So please please! stop punishing when a friendly bomb happens to lodge itself into your brains then explode.
2. When you see enemy units (anything bigger then infintry or jeeps) on the ground or in the air PLEASE point them out. if a pilot is flying by and you point out a target chances are they will come back right away or when they get the chance to, (if the target goes off the minimap RE SITE IT! ) I know when ever I see someone point out something on the ground I will always bomb it immeadeatly or come back when i have bombs. AND PLEASE WHENEVER YOU SEE AN ENEMY PLANE ESPICALLY point them out its just something of a cortisey when you are in a dog fight and you can't see the enemy's moves, it just might let the good pilots live longer and possibly make it back to base in one piece.
3.(for pilots) when on bombing runs its always good, when you know the general location of an enemy, to go up to at least 150 - 300M and up. I have found its better tho to keep in that general range reason being that you can get almost above the target then go down into a "divebomb." its usually more accurate then just going at 400 MPH over their heads and dropping a payload, as in the bombs will usually not hit your target (tho sometimes it will hit and destroy the target on your first run.)
4. If you ever have missles launched at you its always good to go into an up or down spiral, it is harder for the missles to chase you in this action and will not always hit you. remember the enemy only has 6 heatseaking missles for you, some might already be used up, after 6 you only have to worry about the machine gun and other ground bassed AA turets.
5. It is good to always switch between missle mode and bomb mode, be aware of all enemy targets. also whenever you see a fixed AA gun its good to line up your machine gun and then just fire, even if you dont hit them exactly firing around them usually kills them before they can figure out where u are and fire their measly 2 missles at you which usually miss 1 or both of them. this way you can usually keep the air clean of ground based missles. It is very annoying to a pilot when they have a constant beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep of the missle lock warning. For some pilots this is too much pressure and causes them to leave the area for awhile but for the good ones they will find you and kill you so try and be aware of the kind of pilot your dealing with.
there are always more and better ways to fly and kill while in the air, but alas I am a pilot (not too bad one if i do say so my self) and, am sorry but, i am not going to give away all my secrets but, you dont need to cheat to be a good pilot, and please don't because fellow players don't like it and it can get you into alot of trouble.
have fun and try out some of these new tactics on servers, (you should probably try unranked ones first and just make servers for your self would also teach you how to handle a jet at high speeds but like I said, just have fun.
