well even in a bomber's pilot position where 360 awarenes is somewhat compromised,
when the xxxx starts hapening (being attacked - and i'm talking about organised games, as in on-line competitions)
most of the times you can track the Ufo descenting on you for quite sometime ...
in that sense if i have some telescope on the gun ...maybe i can get the pilot or the machine or both from such a distance, that the attacking thingy can't start speading bulets on my six & stuff ...
eh?