How often do you believe you should check your six?

[EAF19_Marsh]

On 12/5/2019 at 12:02 AM, marklar said:

But why? This game does not simulate random faults so what's the point of checking temps, pressure, fluids every 10sec? Unless you were damaged by enemy fire or flying with closed radiators nothing wrong will happen to your plane.

 

Ensure you are at correct revs, boost, radiators, nothing going awry. It takes 1 second at most and - given that we lack the wider tactile engagement with the aircraft - is good practice.

 

10 second is 300m closure on an aircraft with 100kp/h over-taking speed, so a sweep of the instruments is perfectly possible and advisable, if not necessary at a high frequency. Compass, revs, boost can all be covered in a sweep that is 95% outside the cockpit during those 10 seconds.

[Ribbon]

Depends on many factors!

 

-When over friendly AF and deep into friendly territory checking the map is there any enemy activity while scanning horizon all the time and occasional check six.

-quite dependant on how many players are online and checking their stats to determine their objective focus. (Fighter/bomber or what kind of targets they concentrate on).

 

After all that taked in mind if server is populated and fighter roles are high on numbers, when defending friendly objective checking six at least every 30sec to minute, also dependant how many friendlies or teamm8 are around you so they will warn you.

When over enemy territory or objective taking in mind how close is their spawn AF i check six every 5-15seconds and a bit less when on the run for home.

 

Scanning airspace around you is as important as checking six, do it all the time and adjust checking six to it, if you have good SA than checking six doesn't have to be quite frequent.

 

 

Edited December 6, 2019 by EAF_Ribbon

[DD_Fenrir]

Cloud is also a factor. I check the rear hemisphere much more frequently - whether in solo or formation - if flying near a cloud layer (over- or undercast) or through broken clouds.

[I.JG3_CDRSEABEE]

Be nice if we could tell a wingman to identify targets (ranges?) AND send radio message, like a rear gunner does.