If you really want to stay in the air and not just feed the enemy, you've got to get comfortable with your rocket pods, and that takes more than blind spraying you might see in a random Battlefield 6 Bot Lobby. Think about convergence first. At mid to long range, around 400 to 800 metres, your rockets group right around the centre of that eye‑style crosshair, so you can actually place shots. When you rush in and fire at point‑blank, the spread opens up and everything feels wild. So you back off a bit, line up, burst in short volleys instead of dumping the whole rack, and you'll notice your hit rate climbs fast.

Momentum messes with a lot of players. You nose down for speed, your rockets climb higher than you expect. You pull up to clear a hill, now they're dropping low. Easiest fix is to level the heli just before you fire, then tap out one clean burst. When you're tracking another chopper, you're not shooting at the marker, you're shooting where it's going to be. Climbing heli. Aim a bit above. Banking away. Put your crosshair ahead of its turn. Same with infantry: if they're sprinting, line up where they'll run into, not where they are right now. It feels weird at first, but once you start landing two or three rockets per pass, you'll stop holding the trigger like it's a hose.

TOWs are where you delete armour if you stay calm. Ignore the main crosshair; it just distracts you. Stare at the missile itself, that glow, from the moment it leaves the rail. It dips right after launch, so start slightly low and guide it up into the target. Don't slam your stick or mouse around. Small, steady inputs work better than big panicky swipes. Match the target's movement first, then gently close the gap. A stationary AA at long range is basically free if you keep the missile smooth. Even moving armour is fair game once you get used to tracking the hull instead of the UI markers.

If you're gunning, you're not a passenger, you're half the kill. Use the zoom‑lock and snap to your target, then zoom so the pilot's wobble doesn't wreck your aim. The rounds fly faster than pods but they're not hitscan, so you still need to lead, just not as much. Go for infantry first, then light vehicles that are harassing your team. Let the pilot ping or call the heavy stuff so you're not both tunnel‑visioning different things. When you're solo, swapping seats at altitude to finish a smoking tank can work, but you've got to pick your moment, because every second you're not flying you're one lock‑on away from a respawn screen.

Survival in a heli is mostly throttle and map awareness, not just raw aim, and that matters even more than snagging a few easy kills in some cheap Battlefield 6 Bot Lobby session. Ride the throttle so you can pop up for a shot, then drop down to break line of sight. When you hear the lock, don't smash flares straight away; wait until the missile's actually in the air, then pop and duck behind a building, hill, or canyon wall. Stick to the edges of the map, work the flanks, and keep changing altitude so you're never an easy track. The pilots who last the longest aren't the ones with perfect aim; they're the ones who refuse to hover in the open and are always just a bit harder to pin down.