What exactly were they practicing against to simulate a dragon flying? Firing giant bolts at a raven? No amount of practice would have prepared them to take the flying dragon out with the first and second shot. Those were kill shots from a guy sitting in a bucket seat being assisted by multiple sailors rotating/elevating the scorpion, and acting in unison to be able to lead a flying target at distance; a team of five won’t get that right.
If the dragons are that high, then sure, the Iron Born could shoot over BUT then it’d be super easy for the dragons/Danearys to have seen the ships sailing with white water trails behind them. Works both ways.
The hit rates were non-stop, and a weapon that big, firing bolts that large and powerful will require a huge amount of kinetic energy (via the tensioned bow/string) so the time to lock the mechanism back in a firing position is more complicated and time consuming than simply drawing a bow string back. Even with 8-10 boats at the front firing a volley, it’d have been a dead period between that and the next, and yet there wasn’t one.
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