Vermillion;
Extremely good post, Well Done!
I did not have alot of time last night to fly or fight against the NiKi, but here is my take.
Fighting it:
You better decide very quickly if you have any angle or E advantage before starting a DF. More than 90 degrees or less E, maybe better to disengage at max range (spelled - IMA DOT). This plane has devastating fire power, head on merges are suicide.
I killed 2 Niki's, but each time my aspect was 90 degrees or less when I engaged, roughly Co-E. My Spit easily stayed at the elbow or I maintiained a good enough position to counter any verticle moves.
I was shot down 3 times by Niki's, flying in my Spit (UberSpit - as the taunt goes
). All 3 times the Niki had a healthy E advantage, so it is hard to evaluate this completely.
The first was a partial miss on the 1st pass, but half my damage entrees turned red. This guy made 3 passes on me to finally finnish me off. The fight started with this guy on my six, I made my first break at D-2.5 . I wanted to try and get him to turn, see if I could stall him in the canyons. LOL, no luck at this, he was a smart cooky. (I WAS peddling my little heart out
)
The other 2 kills were "No Ping" one pass kills, and were at 180 aspect. Bag it Munch Boy
, I just blew up. I did not see any tracers, but my Net connection was bad last night.
WATCH your lead turn young UberSpit, for death looms near. It comes with the sound of Thunder and strikes with split tongue Lightning.
IMO this plane will cause major strategy changes to the current arena, or you can justly become, "Banthar Fodder".
Flying it:
The first thing you notice is that it has really nice windows. Visibility was really good, particularly in the rear views. Did the British ever catch on to this idea with their Spits? Nice to see what is behind you.
It trimmed nicely, might be still a Beta thing, but the 100-250 IAS changes for aileron trim seemed MUCH less. Comparing this to a Spit or P51.
I had great success performing Hammer Head verticle turns, it pivots nicely on the wing tip (left). This baby really hangs by the prop! Kicking the rudder at 80-100 IAS the transistion to vertical dive is quite controlable. It does not want to "flop" over to a wings level attitude nearly as bad, not requiring much aileron input.
Pulling out of vertical dives was also impressive, beats the Spit here. The Spit just wants to black you out. Exciting to pull out at 400+ IAS and see the woolballs on the Sheepy's.
Mino
