A few simple tips:

When:

1. Shooting Helicopters, Do not lock the heli up the missiles, fly at it with your bombs selected and machine gun the centre if the heli. It takes a bit of practice nut after a while you should be able to take down helis in 1 or 2 passes.

2. Bombing Ground Targets, Again, the machins gun is very helpfull while doing this. The best flying pattern is flying at a very high level (keeping below the 600 limit) and diving down on the ground targets, strafing it first with the guns and then if this doesnt take it out release the bombs. To finish it off.

3. Flying the bomber, while you have a gunner, ensure you fly at a medium height, don't fly too fast, usually avoiding the afterburners. ty and line the nose of the plane up with the target as son as possible giving the gunner as long as possible to lock the target up. Avoid any contact with the enemy's planes, unless you happen to come onto the tail of the enemy bomber. But following the enemy fighter tends to just be a waste of time and will usually end up in your death. Your job as pilot should be to get your gunner as many kills as possible with you taking the kills they miss and the heli copter using method 1.

4. While gunning in the bomber, if you are just begining this, always wait for lock before you fire to ensusre a kill. As you get more practice at this you will not have to wait for lock and should be able to take out the targets without lock.

5. Avoiding enemy fighter- Always loop the loop, releasing your flares as you are pointing in the upward phase of the loop. There is no point in barrel rolling or flying low to the ground. If you are in an F35, just wait for death or bail out. However if you are lucky enough to get a J10, Mig or an F18, a simple loop the loop with afterburners and flares should keep you alive, it then requires alot of looping and circling to try and get behind your attacker. I find the key to this is pressing control and looking around the cockpit, this will give you a much greater field of vision and ensure more kills.