I know most don't think much of E fighting, to some the only 'real' fighting is stall-fighting. But take it from somene who has E Fighting down to a science from a decade of practicing it in various planes. It takes ALOT of patience and discipline to do well. Alot of people are flying E fighters simply because they are fast and the MA tends to favor fast planes in terms of survivability. These people have little or no actual E fighting experience, but come from the turnfighting/stallfighting background, 99% start off learning. They tend to misperceive E fighting as simply Boom n' Zoom, it actually includes simple Boom n' Zoom but also so much more.
A stallfight or turnfight is known universally as an angles fight. The goal is to achieve an angle as quickly as possible on your enemy for a gunnery solution. The loss of E consideration, or conversely, the bleeding of the enemie's E is of secondary importance. So, what you have is people flying E fighters, who engage, usually with altitude, who are approaching the fight from an angles perspective. The end result being them pulling for an angle (whether vertically through an oblique manuever or laterally) for a shot with little regard for relative E states.
It takes ALOT of practice, timing, patience, discipline, tactical awareness, situational awareness and especially gunnery to be a successfull E fighter tactician. It will take these people perhaps years to get very good at judging relative E states and tactics to maximize their own E efficiency while forcing his adversary into manuevers which waste his E. Most people in the MA perform every manuever as if it were a 'balls to the wall' pull lead for the shot situation. Very few people actually 'work' the kill with manuevers that are designed solely to extenuate your E advantage and/or to negate/reverse the enemy's E state advantage with no 'short-term' regard for gaining an angle (any angle, HO or otherwise) for a shooting opportunity.
The result of this ecclectic blend of E fighter planes and angles fighter mentality is alot of HO's.
Zazen
