OK, from some of the stuff ive seen I refulse to believe that people are pressing F2, firing and clicking to aim, then pressing f1 and managing to hit a jet. Somethings not right - what am I missing?

that's right. It takes a lot of practice. I also need a lot of it

PineappleJ says :-
OK, from some of the stuff ive seen I refulse to believe that people are pressing F2, firing and clicking to aim, then pressing f1 and managing to hit a jet. Somethings not right - what am I missing?

I have wondered that as well.

You want believe what some players are capable of doing.
For instance, I can make popcorn!

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Practice - and much more: enjoying choppers.

Get 1 of those Cheat Programs They Get away with on the OTHER servers !! Only Kidding !!

You dont need cheat programmes just a good keyboard or mouse with software that lets you make key bindings, - F1 and then 500 milliseconds (for example) then left mouse then 500 milliseconds then F2 etc all with one keystroke. I got one but i dont use it for that cos i think seatswitching is cheating.

Seatswitching is not the way the game was meant to be played, they fuck the game up for everyone, you cant have a good tank battle or a good fight over the most important flag with a seatswitcher on the server, no matter what team they are on.

The most memorable games i have had have been 1v1 or 2v2 or 3v3, kill, get killed, spawn, get back to where the action is, wash, rinse, repeat, but when a seatswitcher comes its all to fuck, they just sit up in the clouds and blow shit up, and when the map changes to an inantry map they have to leave cos seatswitching is all they got.

Mostly i switch servers when the seatswitchers arrive.

Yeah, I have a keyboard capable of macros/key bindings etc but binding all those actions to one key is, to me, cheating. In the old days, seatswitching wasn't allowed and you would get kicked for it but nowadays it seems the norm. Just unnatural for choppers to be able to shoot down jets with those fly-by-wire missiles if theres only a pilot.

I believe I play pretty fairly, don't fly near the carrier when Chinese etc and try and give ppl a chance.... when USA I don't shoot choppers whch have literally just taken off from the pad as I believe that's not much different from Pad rape...

Dillman, cards on the table here - are you using the bog standard keys and pressing them individually or you got some key macro/recorder set up?
I'm just keen to know if its me being grumpy git cos I cant do it - I'll admit to leaving servers in frustration as to what I see as impossible moves in the base game/config with no special keyboard/software.