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== Combat Tips == | == Combat Tips == | ||
Learning to use [[thrusters]], keeping the throttle in the blue, situational awareness, good pip control and learning to anticipate rather than react to a target's actions are more valuable skills and habits | Learning to use [[thrusters]], keeping the throttle in the blue, situational awareness, good pip control and learning to anticipate rather than react to a target's actions are more valuable skills and habits. | ||
=== Flight Assist === | === Flight Assist === | ||
[[Flight Assist]] (FA) is | [[Flight Assist]] (FA) is a tool that, when used well, opens up many new abilities for a pilot in combat. It allows pilots to make sharper turns and more agile movements, and most importantly it allows pilots to decouple their flight vector from where they are aiming, which allows for much more unpredictable and evasive combat maneuvers. | ||
Flight Assist is essential for more boom and zoom style combat where the attacker needs to turn and gain distance at the same time so that the bad pitch rate is less of an issue. Without mastering FA-off, even something small like an [[Eagle MkII]] can be troublesome when flying with a sluggish ship if it is equipped with nothing but gimballed weapons.<ref name=":0">https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/459810-Is-FA-off-the-answer-for-combat-flying/page4</ref> | |||
=== Pip Management === | === Pip Management === | ||