Are you chopping throttle when you dive? i normaly build up to much speed diving from even 4k out.
Dive flaps, i've never truely understood there purpose. Are they designed to keep you from compressing? And you only extending them at high speeds?
When you are at the climax of your zoom are you using the rudder mostly to turn your self around?
Are you insane head oning a la7 4 times?
Yes, naturally I chop throttle if I go vertical for too long or approach compressibility. With experience you'll learn how to ride the edge of compression to get the most boom out of your plane.
Dive flaps.. I guess they don't have that much effect in AH as they were in real life. Basically theyre supposed to give you a little nose pull if / when you enter compression while doing a little airbreak too.
I turn both using elevator and rudder to turn on the top of the zoom, depending of my speed and time available. I rarely do a pure hammerhead where you let the stall drop the nose. If you noticed, that low'n slow movie started with a perfect rope-a-dope of the 190. In that one I zoomed up, watched the 190 slow down and then just turned down to finish him off.
Am I insane HO'ing LA7 4 times? No. The LA7 was insane to let me HO him 4 times with a broken wing
Those .50 are nasty when they hit. Too bad I couldn't aim with the wing missing. Very often I can still use this as the last approach to avoid a certain doom. It's dweebish I know, but I'm not gonna let a LA7 have anything easy while I'm low in F4u or a jug.
Glad to hear you found new approaches from my films.. I'm quite new to jugs also. Flown them for 3 last TODs, not exclusively though.
[ 12-27-2001: Message edited by: Mr RiplEy ]
