How to evade jet attacks (in an AC)?

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im pritty sure he was talking about dodging jets.

Are u retarded and illiterate or just illiterate? WTF does the title say? "How to evade >>>>>>jet<<<<<< attacks (in an AC)................

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barrel roll? LMAO, I don't know how evasive that move is against jets because none of the helos I've blown away had a chance to pull that $hit. But I will say this and I laugh as I do. The other day playing some AF on Operation Harvest, i was piloting the AH1Z and had a bad@$$ gunner flying with me and we came up against a Z10. This fool does your wonderful barrel roll and I just hover and orbit to the right some, elevate my nose and bam! he's dead, Hellfire to their 12:oc7ock. So umm, in my experience a BS move with no defensive benefit against other helos.

im pritty sure he was talking about dodging jets.

[12:oc7ock]

Re: How to evade jet attacks (in an AC)?

OK; after some practice I now fly a tad bit more decently with a gunner (used to solo). Still, the question remains...

How do I evade incoming jets? I usually flare and do a barrel roll. This still takes me some life. This is OK for noob pilots, but any skilled jet whore will kill me in 4-5 turns. What is pretty annoying. Because I'll have to spawn again, and that's even worse:

I simply can't evade jets while taking off! Flares are useless. The only thing I can think of doing is slide to the side, but still dangerous and usually I the jet kills me before I can even think of doing it.

Any tips?

barrel roll? LMAO, I don't know how evasive that move is against jets because none of the helos I've blown away had a chance to pull that $hit. But I will say this and I laugh as I do. The other day playing some AF on Operation Harvest, i was piloting the AH1Z and had a bad@$$ gunner flying with me and we came up against a Z10. This fool does your wonderful barrel roll and I just hover and orbit to the right some, elevate my nose and bam! he's dead, Hellfire to their 12:oc7ock. So umm, in my experience a BS move with no defensive benefit against other helos.

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i've found a couple of things that help in evading not only A2A missiles, but guns and TV missiles as well. I've mastered barrel rolling from <30 altitude, so thats handy, because even the A2A missiles seem to lose lock when used in conjunction with well-timed flares. higher up in the air, i'll go into a downwards spin, or even the opposite - climp high and go towards a backflip. Only downside is when your gunner is woeful and has little trust, bails and you clip him resulting in a punish and "learn to fly noob", despite you staying up and evading missile after missile.

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well I usally watch them pass me and remember where they will turn than i head twords it flying highwe for ne that usally confuses pilots and if im lucky loes em.

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I love hunting choppers. two kills usually right off the bat. really low armor and two seconds there back in the air waiting for me two do it again. my favorite is when they fly strait up. i just fly off into the fog and return and whammo two more kills. the thing that F's me up the most is if the pilot is actually intelligent and flys low/behind hills i lose sight and my A.D.D takes over and go find something more interesting and also if they fly toward me, that screws me up just as bad, no one wants to lose there plane or chopper so i tend to bide my time with those kinds of pilots. When i used to like flying choppers i used to have a special move of my own. If the pilot manages to pass you to do another run. i usually follow in his wake meaning if he passes me and turns to the right i will also turn right. i turn tighter than me and he will get frustrated, also i usually keep my minimap open with transparancy set at 100% so ill look for friendly AA to save my but if i have too.

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TV the nub

[troybob]

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fight back - or fly high - jets like to fly low for some reason.

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i mostly use cannons against attack choppers, they seem to evade less. the only tip i can give u when one is after u is: dive downwards and to the side. NEVER FLY UP!! you'll just crash into the plane!! <-- so many nubs do that!!!. missiles arent really a problem and rarely hit, but flare anyway.
but if a pilot REALLY wants you, you wont get away from him, so you best hide :)

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yea atleast try to fight back and get a kill even if it means ur life
they will def think twice about goin after u again

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It isn't the skilled jet jockeys that give me headaches. It is the ones who think the jet is merely a manned missile whose sole purpose is ramming copters. Even worse when they're on my team, lol.

Just like most other places, if you're the fastest mover, it is your responsibility to avoid running into the slower ones.

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If im on the carrier trying to take off in a heli and a jet comes to baserape I usually jump out because that will destroy the missle lock and most of the time keeps you alive to run away and repair.

The best thing to avoid a jet that is constantly doing runs to get you is either to stay near AA or just to go to another section of the map. Unless you get Q-Spotted, the jet wont know where to go. Also, if you know a jet is coming - do a complete 90 degree turn and start losing altitude. That usually will cause missle miss and its harder to use the autocannon.

If your a good gunner or have a good gunner you can try and TV missle the plane, thats always fun and you get a 'wtf?! OMG hax' from the noob j-10 pilot.

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if theyre behind me and its quite late ill pull a v tight 180 so their guns will usually miss and i get closer to them and then they've gone past me in no time, and then if theyre annoying me again and again ill get up high and have face offs with them... as someone said the bullfighter lol

firing 8hellfire missles towards them head on usually gets them once or kills them or at least makes them think twice about coming again, or even tv but ive found firing off all your hellfires usually scares them a bit even if you miss.

[should add tho] a decent pilot can take out choppers in like 4seconds just with their guns quite annoying

[.Churr.]

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Oh yeah... "Skilled pilot" means the "Above average pub pilot".
I've had some guys switching to bomber mode and shooting me down before I see it coming =[

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Skilled jet pilots usually take me down with gun only: switched to bomb, no missle lock = no alert to me until i start to get hit; they fly at very low speed to easy correct their aim on my evasive manouvers... but that happens when your team isn't covering the air with friendly jets!

For the rest: when u get engaged (by missle) or being fired by the gun, i see where the jet is coming from, i fast slide on a side and release flares (i release it even if i didn't engaged by missles, because some skilled pilots switch to them at last second), then i complete a large rotation to have the jet into my front view, from now on i follow the jet giving him to my gunner view, waiting (eventually) him back, to shot it down with TV missle ...but that's depend upon your gunner.