Acceptable Ping rates?

[Skoshi Tiger]

Hi! I'm just wondering what people view as an acceptable ping values for playing online. I'm from Western Australia and the problem is at the times I get a chance to play online I generally have to play on servers in the US/UK with ping rates (on a good day) of 300-310ms. If it's any higher I generally don't bother.

At local servers I can find ping rates of 60ms, but generally I'm the only one there and it gets a bit boring (sometimes) flying circuits and blowing up undefended ground targets. (Oh and theres always those 'open' servers, sans password, with 6 or so gamers that boot you as soon as you join the game!)

The other question is, flying off line I seem to have a lot better gunnery than when I'm flying online. Could the high ping rate be one of (apart from my general suckiness of flying skills) my problems?

Cheers!