Definition of a Dweeb Plane

[Maverick]

Gents,

You are all wet. There IS a dweeb plane in AH. It has nothing to do with the testosterone level of the pilot either.  

The primary dweeb plane of AH is the C47. The views are limited, the roll rack sucks, there is NO wep, it will dive compress in a heartbeat and the HO's are absolutely terrible. The guns are WAY undermodeled and it takes forever to get to fighting alt. To top it off even a zeke can catch it at max speed. Now if you don't think this is a dweeb plane you haven't a clue.  

Mav

[This message has been edited by Maverick (edited 08-22-2000).]

[BigJim]

OK I am getting old I guess what hell is AKFF??

[RAM]

AKFF=AKfokerFoder...Its a quite long name and I was shortening it a bit  

[kidcol]

Apache, I agree with you wholeheartedly. At least I think I do, Being a fairly new guy in AH, I am sure I do remarkably dweebish things often. Last night I was nose up at an F4U that was diving on me & thinking "Wow, I am gonna die BIG time" & I did. But I am here in AH to release a lot of tension that has built up thru the day, even when I die on flights (ok, not every time, sometimes I think it's a bit of a ripoff when I pulled a good manuever & still didn't get the guy, but that, ladies & gents, is the way it worked in RL too).
 I have been called an "HO dweeb" for takin a front quarter shot that the other guy couldn't possibly get around on, a "spit dweeb" for out-turning somebody stupid enuf to get low & slow & an "alt dweeb" for using correct E-fighting to (well almost) kill somebody below me.

& I suck. Bonifide sucky pilot right now (gimme time tho)

So, be careful about the dweeb-calling. A lot of the time I see more skilled pilots calling less skilled pilots dweebs or even matched pilots having a catfight cause one of them lost.

<resisting the urge to say "shut up, play the game">

oops, failed to resist

Close by saying that I have never, in all the scant time I've been playing online sims, insulted or derided an opponent for killing me. To do so, would, I think, be the epitomy of loserdom.

- kidcol2 -
-=NightStalkers=-

[flakbait]

There are no dweeb planes, only dweeb pilots. An example:

During my 2 week trial, I was having LOADS of fun spying on enemy fields. I'd drive an M-16 out, find a nice garden spot and call the cons as they lifted off. Well, I'd been sitting near A3 for about 15 minutes when a 109 lifts off. I called it, and had a few replies from friendly drivers. The 109 promptly executed a nice wing-over and started a roll-in on me. I lined up my guns and started firing, only to get killed. I thought nothing of it until I read the name in the buffer. The guy who killed me swaped sides to do it! He'd been on our side 10 minutes before, but swaped sides just to get a kill. Instead of fuming over it, I simply informed everyone on Knights that this pilot, at A3, was a trator.

From then on I don't know what happened. I moved on to another field to raise Merry Hell with Bishops. Got a few kills from it too. But that pilot, and his actions, I will never forget.

Another example of odd behavior:

Seems the Bishops decided to try and take A6 back from Knights. There were only 3 pilots over the field, and they were screaming for help. I jumped over there and started playing GIC [ground intercept controller]. Every time I'd see someone about to get bounced, I'd give him a check-6 call. Fast-Forward 10 minutes. Now there's 20+ friendly pilots over A6, and the Bishops are literally coming in waves. I spotted a B-26 on a bomb-run. So I call out "B-26 ovr A6, NE of field" and expect someome to intercept the guy. No one makes a move.

5 minutes after that, I still can't figure out why no one went after the B-26. There was only 2 enemy fighters over A6 at the same time as the B-26. Someone should have nailed him. Ahh, well. Maybe they got confused. I've seen it happen before, no biggie. Now I see a B-17 coming in for a run, so I call a pilot who's in position to attack it "Hey, you turn around; B-17 on ur 6". I get as a reply "cc delta......stop commanding people". I logged out just after I read that.

My personal Dweeb list:

1: Swap sides for a kill
2: Pull nothing but Head-ons
3: Fire on chutes at any altitude
4: Refuse to reconnect if you're warping
5: Vulching non-stop at any field
6: Flying a B-26B, or B-17G, as a fighter
7: Flying an Ackstar
8: Whining every time you get killed in a surprise bounce
9: Not helping out a friendly pilot in trouble just because you don't want to
10: Failing to engage enemy bombers, or fighters, due to some self-proclaimed sense of superiority over other pilots.

None of the above can be excused. At least not by me.

Flakbait
Delta 6's Flight School

[AKFokerFoder+]

"there is no nazi plane, but nazi pilots."

Any German plane with a Swastika on it is a Nazi plane. Sorry, but that is the way it was.

"Look, AKFF...happens that I fly the plane I want, not the one you think is right to avoid dweebs."

I never told you what plane to fly.

 "Happens,too that if someone dives on me from 30K to headon me I'll call him DWEEB regardless what you say or think about dweebs or not dweebs. And I'll call dweeb the 1K shooters,too."

My my my a lot of Dweebs in the arena for sure. And I've just added one more to the list    



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[RAM]

 

Originally posted by flakbait:

1: Swap sides for a kill
2: Pull nothing but Head-ons
3: Fire on chutes at any altitude
4: Refuse to reconnect if you're warping
5: Vulching non-stop at any field
6: Flying a B-26B, or B-17G, as a fighter
7: Flying an Ackstar
8: Whining every time you get killed in a surprise bounce
9: Not helping out a friendly pilot in trouble just because you don't want to
10: Failing to engage enemy bombers, or fighters, due to some self-proclaimed sense of superiority over other pilots.

Great list, flakbait. I agree with it.

[AKFokerFoder+]

My list of dweeb behavior  

1.  Getting on arena wide comms and whining.
2.  Getting on your own sides comms and whining.
3.  Getting on public a BBS and whining.

But that is only my own $.02  

Shuffles back to his cave.

[Jigster]

Webster's Dictionary:

Dweeb: Subcategory
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Dweeb Plane: See Dweeb pilot
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Dweeb Pilot: See Jigster
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Jigster : A dweeb plane is officialy so when a dweeb pilot by the name of "Jig" is flying it.

- Jig
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How many Spit XIV posts does it take to get to the hormone-crazed center of a luftwobble pop?

The world may never know.

[Beefcake]

I love the fact that RAM will defend and say that the 190 is PERFECT in every way and there are no problems with it, but yet he will not waste anytime in pointing out that other planes have some small defects. <sigh> Keep it up RAM, it got you the 190A-5, maybe HTC will give you some other stuff too.

Wait.......why did I post this in THIS thread? Damn this Sprite must be getting to me.  

[MrLars]

Don't forget the people who insist on posting "I killed you X number of times Vs your X number"...sounds alot like FA <Dweebs> to me.

Lars

[SOB]

That's 'cause RAM's a dweeb Beefcake.  Also, for posting in this thread, YOU'RE a dweeb!  Wait...and for replying to you (among other reasons), I'm now a dweeb too!  Dammit!  


SOB

[wolf37]

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
C.O.
THUNDER BIRDS

[RAM]

In this world there is something called "merge", wolf37...have you ever heard of it?

It consists on 2 planes crossing headon, but without firing.

Most fights here start with merges.

Now, some dweebs try to hit you before merging.

So no, it doesnt take 2 to headon.

Need more hints?

[Heckel]

Wow!

All this is still being debated.  I haven't missed a thing...

-Heckel
JG2 (retired)