Good air to air accuracy rating?

[KnightFandragon]

Sooo, lol, my uncle and I just got HSFX 5.0 updated and installed and now I see the stats page and was wondering, what is a decent air to air gun accuracy rating? I am at like 4% atm, but then again, im pretty rusty and trying to get used to the new HSFX mechanics. Also, ill leave out the fact I unloaded my entire Spitfire mag into the air just to do it.... My last mission was 16% against 2 Mossies...Just wondering what I should be shooting for haha

[SturmKreator]

Originally Posted by KnightFandragon

Sooo, lol, my uncle and I just got HSFX 5.0 updated and installed and now I see the stats page and was wondering, what is a decent air to air gun accuracy rating? I am at like 4% atm, but then again, im pretty rusty and trying to get used to the new HSFX mechanics. Also, ill leave out the fact I unloaded my entire Spitfire mag into the air just to do it.... My last mission was 16% against 2 Mossies...Just wondering what I should be shooting for haha

onlyne I have with my focke wulf over 10%, but when I use the bf109 the air hit grow to 20% and more, some times 60%, but that is my particulare case, I have over 6 years flying Il-2 and know everithing about the german gunnery.

[IceFire]

My accuracy tends to average from 9-12 overall both air to air and strafing. A bit higher if you count just air to air. That's almost 10 years of experience on and off.

The average RAF pilot during the Battle of Britain I believe was scoring approximately 3% accuracy so you're not far off the average for a newer pilot. Doing a bit better actually. Practice it and your accuracy numbers will go up!

[KnightFandragon]

Very well then +D I'll get back to atleast decent like I was before...got like 16% on the 2 plane quick battle I just got out of haha.

[pupo162]

yeah usually in a good sortie its 10%. in a bad one it goes down to 2%.

but 10%+ is a very high rating. i once had something like 15 % and got home with no bullets in a FW. it was not in vain as i did destroy 4 La5, 2 il2 and 1 A20. thats my personnal record.

the top accuaracy ive had was 60% in a 109, but htat one count as cheeting. it was a half a second burst in a scissor pass ehre he apssed 5 meters from me. so out of 20 bullets i hit something like 14.

[TinyTim]

Versus bombers your hit ratio should be about twice or thrice as high as against fighters. It's also easier to get higher hit ratio with nose mounted guns as compared to wing ones for obvious reason.

It also depends on your tactics - with planes like a 190 that got plenty of ammo you'll probably tend to take lower probability high deflection/long range shots, frightening shooting etc., which will all result in lowering your hit rate, while in a plane like Yak you'll want your every bullet to count so you'll probably tend to only shoot when you'll be nearly sure of hitting.

In my best online years I've kept my hitratio versus fighters about 10% and 15% for wing and for nose equipped guns respectively, and ~40% versus bombers. You really need an excellent connection and game running perfectly smooth for such numbers. And, needless to say, you must purpousefully aim for high hit ratio. Which is sometimes impossible - like when trying to fend an enemy of your buddy tail etc...