Using fighter planes | Tips and tricks Heroes & Generals Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

1. Play as a team. There are no other places on the battlefield, where precise teamwork is more important, than when you are playing as a fighter pilot. If you noticed an enemy chasing your teammate in a plane, it's important to react and try to take the foe out - not only that you will eliminate an enemy from the battlefield, decreasing the amount of lives / equipment in an assault team, but you will also make the job of the said ally a lot easier.

2. Pay attention to marks on the battlefield. If your team is competent and they know what they have to do, the whole battlefield will be flooded with red markers, which stand for enemy units. There are two types of markers: a smaller, triangle one, which is used for infantry, and slightly bigger, square one, which stands for enemy vehicles. You should mostly focus on the latter one - a bomb dropped on the roof of an enemy tank will severely damage, if not completely destroy it.

3. Pay attention to control points. Thanks to your bombs, you can kill off a whole group of enemies with a single strike. It's extremely effective when enemy forces are trying to capture an exposed control point - send a bomb in the middle of it and watch as enemies are blown in every direction. You should, however, avoid using your bombs when there are allied soldiers near your desired target, as you can easily kill them off too!

4. Watch where you drop your bombs. Bombs are lethal to your enemies, but they can just as easily affect your own allies. If you see a place in which fights take place, but there are players from your team in the vicinity of that place, refrain from dropping your bombs - you can do more harm than good.

5. Don't forget about enemy fighter planes. Besides dropping bomb on ground targets, it's crucial that you take care of the enemy airplanes, preventing them from doing their job, which, obviously, is to bombard your team.

6. Watch out for enemy anti-aircraft guns. If the enemy keeps on nagging you and is constantly shooting at you from an AA gun, you should take care of it as soon as possible, because the enemy can destroy your plane in a matter of seconds, even if you try to outmaneuver the bullets. There are two solutions to this problem. You can either take care of it by yourself, by dropping bombs and / or shooting your machine guns at the enemy, or simply ask someone from your team to kill the AA gun operator - an Infantryman controlling the gun is extremely vulnerable to attacks from close range.

7. Watch out when throwing bombs. Besides the possibility of sending an entire enemy squad to the other world, you can cause problems for yourself as well. Do not even drop your bombs when you are flying on a low altitude - there's a high chance that your own plane will be caught in the explosion, and the pilot (i.e. your soldier) will be send flying, but this time without the plane itself!

8. Do not do "barrel rolls" during flight. A plane is not a tank and it's not giving you the same amount of protection - the pilot is covered by a piece of glass, which offers zero protection from enemy attacks. If you have an enemy plane at your tail, rising your machine upright is a suicide - the enemy will have an easy time shooting at your cockpit, after which your pilot will be dropped out of the plane, and the machine itself will fall limply to the ground.

9. Select ammo accordingly. As with any type of equipment, you can personalize the type of ammunition available on the plane you are controlling. Thus, you can either select (only for the machine gun, unfortunately) armor piercing bullets (AP), or the one designated to combat the enemy infantry (HE). Using either of them does not exclude you from using it on other, "unplanned" targets, but HE bullets are ineffective against armored targets, while hitting enemy infantry with AP bullets is extremely difficult.