How are good/effective Liberator pilots using their Libs these days?

[CasualCat]

If you've got a lot of hours in your lib (70hrs+) do you have a decent SPM? How are you using it to achieve that? I've seen people on the official forum with very high SPM who claim to be primarily Lib pilots, but haven't seen what they're doing to achieve that.

I've probably got >90hrs now in a Liberator, but my SPM in it is generally low.

First, I don't want to farm infantry with the Liberator. I'd prefer and always have to hunt vehicles.

I'm finding lately that I can't stay on station long enough to take out vehicles most of the time. Were I to compare time on station to time traveling/running/repairing it'd probably be something like 30%:70%. That number is likely worse on Esamir but better on Amerish.

I can stay alive generally if I'm not getting too aggressive, but then of course I'm not very effective either.

As an example say you come across a tank column with Skyguards. With an ESF I can loop around behind them and make multiple quick low passes generally taking out 1 tank each time.

With the Lib I can try to skirt the edges of their AA shield and hope my gunner can take out a Skyguard before we have to flee.

Don't get me wrong we get kills, but I don't feel like we're contributing all that much to the battle unless you count drawing the AA's attention so other things can get kills.

I honestly probably get more vehicle kills with the Tankbuster from other Libs wandering too close to us or ESFs flying at me head on than we get overall from the belly gun.

So what are you doing that works? What am I missing that could help me do better? Thanks!

ETA: typical setup:
High-G 3
Flares 2
Nanite repair 4

Tankbuster w/Magazine 3
Dalton w/reload 4 Zoom 3
Walker w/magazine 2 IR or Bulldog w/IR