Improve your aiming/marksman skills

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Originally Posted by lonewulf

So... just so I'm getting this; you're flying along at about 450kph and the enemy is doing about 300-400 kph and your aircraft is moving around and his aircraft is moving around and maybe he's in a slow turn or climbing or descending and your MGs are many things but certainly not target rifles but these facts notwithstanding, you want to harmonise your guns to try and hit the pilot? Are you aiming for any particular part of the pilot?

Those two diagrams appear to show about 20 degees of angle off, so that's a miss if you pull the trigger.

You misunderstood completely I'm trying to do the exact opposite.
When the convergence is set to single point, that's when you're trying to kill the pilot with a sniper rifle which a plane is certainly not.

However if you set your spread to cover the whole profile of the canopy and then some, then you just have to be near enough. And it's not about a pilot kill, any vital part will do.

And the two diagrams above are an illustration to show how tiny the spread is with single point convergence. There's no target lead there.