Aiming in 6DOF

[Olham54]

CJ: Following your tracers is great when you have plenty of ammunition.

The Bordeauxred Baron:
Zat brings us to my favourite speech about ze Dsherman weaponz.
Vee always have TWO gunz (ach! don't mention ze Eindecker and Halberstadt!), vizz 1.000 - 1.100 roundz of ammunishn! Vant to try out? Sign right here, werter Herr... (Mmmuahahahahaaa!!!!)

 

[Bullethead]

Following your tracers is great when you have plenty of ammunition. You won't be doing much "tracer aiming" in an N11. By the time you follow the tracers to the target, you're out of ammo. The overall best thing is, like was said previously. Develop a "feel" for it

I agree, you have to have a feel for where your guns shoot in any given ride. Otherwise, no telling where you'll be shooting, TIR or not.

I have the feel for my rides so my 1st shots either hit or come very close. I don't walk tracers onto a target from far away, but I do use them to "aim" as in verifying where I'm shooting.

That said, TIR makes it MUCH easer to do all this. If you're looking through the sight, you can't see under your nose at all so deflection shooting in a turn is pure guesswork. If you're in a limited-ammo Noop, you might not even take such a shot. But with TIR, you can see the target so no problem.

Also, in the normal furball shots, putting the target above your nose with TIR gets it above the muzzle flashes, so you can actually see your tracers and the hit graphics for a change.