Ron-Schultz wrote:OK guys lets clear this up:
I think im a very experienced pilot and i can tell you you can avoid an aa hit with a chance of nearly 100%. How you do that and how u have to fly thats another chapter and needs a lot of experience in a battlesituation(u cannot train that on a trainingsserver and its different between all maps). BUT there is only one BIG problem: U HAVE TO KNOW WHERE THE BADGUYS ARE. therefore the communication of the whole team comes into play(which is currently the goal of PR
). The CAS Squad is only as good as the whole team is playing together (i know when u have got a retarted enemy team, then all this is not nessasary and u also get your 80 kills without suadleadercommunication, but im talking of an experienced enemy team)
So in my opinion AA is not overpowered, its good as it is now.
*NwA*Orford wrote:I flew a Cobra on Muttra a few times recintly. Medium altitude and dodged every AA fired at me.
You need to remeber if the AA locks you, turn round and fly through your flares. Dropping flares as you fly forward leaves the flares behind and is only good if the AA is behind you. If you carry on flying forward towards the area you started to get locked from you are an easy target.
Diving is the worst, AA locks, you drop flares your still going into the lock cone and boom your dead with flares dropping way behind you. The AA missile keeps coming right at you due to the flares being behind.
Medium Alt, Hover/slow forward, AA lock, Barrel roll while dropping flares, drop the power into a slow decent and you will be decending in a cloud of flares. AA missile detonates on the flares, your ssafe.
Its not about how over powerd they are its about knowing how the flares work. The way I explained it the only way you get shot down is from a AA guy who is disaplined to not lock you as soon as your in range of his AA. Doing that leaves the pilot who rolls and dropps flares or turns the way he came with flares trailing behind flying right into the AA with his nose to the missile, boom dead. Dont hunt for the chopper let them come close, then lock.
I only got shot down when my gunner insisted we dived a target, flares trailing behind and the cobra in nice open sky flying right at the AA. The gunner learned his lesson.
i dont know how you guys do this ,
but if you describe that the problem is the helicopter is in the front and the flares are behind , so the damn problem is the flares that dropped from the helicopter are dropped to this sides of the heli , no to the front
so if the missle is in front of me and not in the side of me, first of all i need to know that .
second even if i know some how magicly that the missle coming in front of me it takes me 1 second to rotate the helicopter to the side
but the main problem is that the flares dropped to the helicopter side
in a jet the problem is worse, because the flares dropped from the back.
so escape from AA chance is even lower from the helicopter
in jet i NEVER escaped AA lock.
i can dodge the missle of a jet that lock on me , and even get behind the jet that behind me
but the AA is not the same because the missle coming from the ground,
. It will give pilot, a little more time to react and evade.
