hi all:
everybody has a list of makes a pilot a dweeb. as for those of you that call a pilot a dweeb for attacking you HO, well it takes two to HO, if you are turning, diving, climbing, or any thing else, and get killed HO, how is it this has happened, a HO comes from a distance, if your turning and boom, the guy did not HO you, he turned into you or you turned into him. you see the guy 8k away, you close so you can engage him, he see's you 8k away and close's to engage, now yopu have a HO, but is it only one pilots fault, is he the only HO dweeb, or are both pilots going for the HO and hoping for the best.
you see a plane low, you drop to engage, you miss your first pass and blow your advantage, you are now flying away from him, and he away from you, you both turn to contuine after each other, as you turn and he turns you end up coming at each other HO, who is the HO dweeb here.
I dont see how one person can be called a HO dweeb when it takes two to do a HO, a good example, a few nights ago some of us Knights where attacking a9, owned by the BIshop, i was in a 205 and saw a spit, i had alt advantage and when after it, the spit turned towards me to engage, now we where heading at each other HO, i still had alt advantage, i blasted him and down he went, i got the kill, now it was a pilot i dont like, and who does not like me, i was very happy about that kill. but he did not whine about the HO and i did not gloat about killing him as he tried to HO me, as he did not try to HO me, he turned and engaged me as i was coming after him. it ended up been a HO only because that is the angle of attack we both ended up on.
so as far as HO's go, you can not call a pilot a dweeb for it, as you can avoid it, and if you dont, then you must be a dweeb as well.
now some of you will have 1001 reasons as to what a HO is and how only one pilot did this HO, and i will be glad to listen to all your excuses and tell you why your just whinning that you got killed. i said it before and will say it again, it takes two to HO.
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wolf37
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