Combat Flight Training (CFT) December 26th 20:00 UTC

[marcsand2]

COMMANDING OFFICER: OblivionsGift, Marcsand2

Start Location: Delamar - Levski
Gathering time: 19:45 UTC
Start time: 20:00 UTC
Comms: TEST Guilded, Main Hub, Star Citizen Comms, CFT channel

Personal Equipment required:

• TEST armor (yellow/black)
• Black armor

Required:

• Light / medium fighter
• Turret fighter like the Hurricane also allowed

Goal:

• flight tactics
• effective comms

Before the event starts, we will gather in TEST Guilded, Main Hub, Star Citizen Comms, CFT channel, 19:45 UTC.
During the briefing everybody needs to go to the main menu.
Everybody stays in the main menu until they get a party invite.
Further instructions will be given in TEST Guilded, Main Hub, Star Citizen Comms, CFT channel.


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[empireRSA]

How ping / latency dependant is this?

I quite badly would like to start flying with you guy’s, 'cause you know, we need to work on our coordinated Aurora strike’s and all that, but I suspect I'll average around 220ms to EU & 270~ish ms to US servers atm.

 

[marcsand2]

a good ping always helps, but mostly I fight in the US. That is 160~ish ping.
Dogfighting is about the ability to evade incoming fire and get you in a good position to land hits.

There is a guy, I only beat him once..... Aurora vs Gladius . I need to find a better tactic

[EDIT]above applies to 1 v 1 dogfighting.

In CFT the main objective is to fight effective as a group. You have a bad ping, which kills you fast in 1 v 1, then use evasion and distance. It keeps you alive and a target longer while the other guys in your flight can work on the hostiles. If you are hard to hit, hostiles tend to target easier to hit targets, which gives you the option to target them.

 

[empireRSA]

I ccu'd to a Talon Shrike the other day with the idea that I wouldn’t need to aim missiles, just sort of keep my ship pointed in the enemy’s general direction lol :D

But yeah, awesome, I suppose the best way to know for sure is to hop on and test. (not a pun)

 

[marcsand2]

I ccu'd to a Talon Shrike the other day with the idea that I wouldn’t need to aim missiles, just sort of keep my ship pointed in the enemy’s general direction lol :D

With the Shrike you will be at a huge disadvantage. It is easy for a light fighter to evade missiles, and CM does it's job good. The Talon however has some serious firepower, 2x S4