Originally posted by WldThing
Care to explain?
He may not totally be correct, but in a sense he is right. You cant teach anyone to fly like you fly, it comes with experience. What i have always taught was basic theory of the move that needs to be used in an engagement. Teaching comes from preaching..
Well, it's not a 100% disagreement....
1) cause I'm an idiot.
2) You can teach how important SA is, and you can teach how to perform ACM.
Every time you die it's because you neglected SA, you let someone get on your 6 or allowed yourself to be gang banged.
Every ACM can be taught, moreover, every ACM can be taught as when to use, what situations calls for which ACMs.
The more time a vet spends with a newbie the more\faster they understand. The more the newbie understands, the longer his\her life expectancy. The longer the life exspectancy, the more time the newbie can practice SA\ACM, the faster they get experience, the longer they stay in the game.
The idea is to not only help re-supply the target enviroment with quality fights, it's also to show someone else how to help another player and pass on what they have learned or were taught, and how.
It helps create a short cut past the newbie level where fustration causes account cancelation.
It helps create a community cycle. Most players who were helped, will help other players, most likely in the same way they were taught. Anything you teach is going to contain bits of your style of flying, and way of thinking.
When you teach, your only return to ask for is that the newbie helps someone else when they feel they can.
Teaching can also be done in an informal way by telling the loser of a dogfight where they went wrong, instead of bantering what a god you are for doing it. Learning of SA\ACM never stops, nor does teaching it.
While experience is the key, how to live long enough to get more experience can be taught.
As I said above your pay back is a faster resupply of a target enviroment of quality fights. Quality fights = more fun, more fun = less sniveling, less sniveling means more fun for everyone. The more fun the higher the level of teaching and learning can be done. The faster the wheel turns.
A little mellow dramatic , but you get the point.
