Battlefield 1 - Fighter plane - A few useful tips 

Dice was like "oh no you too GOOD!"

Losing a good pilot from your tail is really hard. I suggest to go into a vertical or at least angled loop (no horizontal circles please and always enter the loop by going towards the ground, not up in the sky, works better in my experience) and try to maintain the right speed by speeding up on the way up and slowing down on the way down (slightly). If you do it right the enemy should be at least loosing sight of you for a few moments every loop and those moments are your ticket to get him off your tail. Just slightly change your direction when on the top of a loop or do a quick roll and try to fly an "eight-figure" in the sky. Most pilots will either not see you at all and lose you or give up on the dogfight. In my experience (since the absence of air radar) your biggest help is the sound of a plane passing you. If you are in a dogfight and you both do loops and manouvers where you pass each other every now and then, try to change up your loop everytime you hear the sound of the enemy plane. This will most likely gain you the advantage as the enemy won't be able to tell what you just did (against experienced pilots it's a whole other story). For the rockets there's probably just one solution and that's practice. One tip is to not use the yaw when aiming with the rockets as your reticle won't represent the true flight path of the rockets anymore when you do so (saw it in another tutorial).

Marius Ranzinger Wow thanks for the info.. all makes sense. Will definitely practice the techniques you pointed out. I'll see about not using the yaw with the rockets and see if it helps. Again thanks for the advice great to see people taking the time to share and teach..

+Gb J no problem mate :)

Thearesia Van Astrea .....and your a good pilot obviously

Brian1996 Flying low would seem like pilots would know. If there's AA and a hill up ahead you can fly low behind mountain. For Monte Grappa you can fly behind the one mountain.

Arctic_Foxz ok ma dude

sَamّ_nُo What part are you having trouble with? Hitting the Gunners below?

If you can't hit them that good then focus the top two guns in front and back.

4ingP Simple. Learn to be a good sniper at long ranges and moving targets and snipe at planes so they can't repair and let AA do most of damage. They can counter by going behind mountains tho.

It works pretty good, but I think it doesn't actually make the turn itself smaller, but makes it easier to make a tight turn. Another tip is to raise the field of view. Takes a little time to get used to it, but it makes dogfights so much easier.

TheAgentAssassin Yes but ground troops can still fire. Especially guns with bipod .

TheAgentAssassin But then you gotta watch out for people spawning in mobile AA artillery trucks. And those suckers are a pain in the butt.

volksdude1970 trial and error.....if you missed because your to late, fire earleir. it's visual touch feel game play

I'd say nerf the range of the AA artillery truck and lower the screenshake effects and wing damage of AA. Damage can stay the same at first so we can see the difference first

MattiAceGaming Hopefully they do nerf AA truck. On console you can't type in a chat box to take it out. The closest you can get is a friend using assault or place a order on a objective that it is closest to mostly saying this for conquest.

They should definitely work on the screenshake especially from friendly AA and the Dreadnought. There was a few times were I flew near the ground and friendly Dreadnought fire flew past me, making me crash. AA doesn't bother me most of the times, besides the ridiculous range on the AA truck as you said.

No, I've recently heard that console players plug their controllers into PC and compete and even beat the best PC pilots. I can't confirm it but it seems legit

MattiAceGaming I'm the 420 viewer dankness keep up the good work

I use a PS4 controller on PC and do pretty well. Also I use a weird set-up with the sticks. I don't use default setting, I use Legacy Southpaw.

I use the veteran air vehicle settings and I do pretty good with the fighter plane. yesterday I had a 42 kd two games in a row

MattiAceGaming thanks Mattie I must be useless haha

No and I probably never will, not my thing

Gavin Searle Go to the server browser and choose the search options. Go to the "Open Slots" option and only the option that has 64 in it. Then just look for the map of your choice and have at it.

volksdude1970 thanks man!

Gavin Searle Glad to help out!

Ash Yeah i think the same, if you are a good pilot you can perfectly in the almost all situations in a 1vs1 with the AA kill him. Sorry if my english is wrong, its not my first language

lucas wenceslao torres capra I agree. most pilots will break off from an attack, but the better ones know how to actually engage and kill AA gunners

if anything, I would lower indirect damage and doubled direct damage. QF1 AA should reward players for accuracy. I would also slightly Increase range so we can shoot bombers flying way above.

Eugene it would have been cool if they had two types of AA. One long range direct damage and one close range indirect. balanced with different rofs and projectile velocities

URANIUM REAPER Im not saying this with the objective to think "im the best pilot" because im not good but it requires a minimun amount of skill, now will be very easy, with no challenge (50% less challenge), i pesonaly think with the first nerf (the AA not shake your plane out of control) its enought. Again, sorry for my english if is bad

What do you mean by glitch out? I have a problem after reloading every now and then but nothing else so far.

Marius Ranzinger the plane will make a sharp dip as soon as the bombs hit anything. It will make a sharp dip like two times quickly then be fine until I drop bombs again

+nathan0717 this happens usually if you lag out, never experienced this in combination with the darts dropping though.

Brand0oo wtf why ?

why.. not?

Plane kills make's him yet :D

TheRoyalCoconut I, too, get yet by the airplanes.

Aaron Jake They are nerfing the splash damage. Directs hit are what ground troops using AA will need 5o do to be most effective

Well that's even better. I actually had my gf, who has never played, use the AA to prove my point..she took down two Attack Planes, no problem.

they are nerfing the CONTACT damage, not the splash damage. Splash damage is responsible for most ground to air kills.

veryimportantthought Yeah that's What I notice when I use AA. Usually I see the splash hit the plane. I rarely get direct hits unless it's a bomber