Originally posted by Slash27
a tip to practice : learn to hide your stored "E" and using the No G load climb "zoom climb" , reversing direction 180 degrees in a dogfight maintaining 150 to 200 IAS and doing it so fast the guy thinks your cheating!
Maybe this is why I have peaked as far my skills are concerned. I dont know what the hell you just said TC.
I most times take 75% 2 DTs, burn AUX tank first then switch to DTs, or sometimes 50% and 2 DTs
Why not burn wing tanks first? I was under the immpression this would help the roll rate. And where are you going that you need 75% and DTs in a pony? Maybe you live longer than I do:D
ok, hiding your E state is a way to try and make the enemy think you are slower ( in speed ) than you actually are, you can use lag pursuit to do this ( point nose behind/below the 6 of the enemy ) mantaining distance or slightly giving up a small increment to make him think he is faster than you so he will reverse back to you or try to climb out on you, except you are fooling him and crawl up his backside and fill him full of 6 50's, if you are coming at an enemy and are fast, angle your path slightly away from him, make him come to you, keep your speed up, he will think you are slower than him by the closer rate, not a 90 degree angle off, think 10 deg, 15 deg max... then when he gets with in say the 2k 1.5k range you can show your E ( speed ) climb out on him, rope him, whatever you think the situation calls for.... WldThing and Shane both are very good at this..Urchin (rawr ) also... now the P51D ( B as well ) can turn on the dime if you fly it right, with out ever dropping the speed below 150/200 but it takes practice
I normally am fighting any plane I am flying in the game with 75% fuel to 50% fuel, I am not in the DA, so I never fly with 25% or 50% and no drop tanks,
but if I do get low on fuel, my plane performs that much better for me, but usually if I am in a Hog around the 3/8 mark on the main tank it is time to RTB... around 25% to 20% in the P51 for me.......
alot of players fly with 50% and 25% and in my on opinion prob couldn't do 1/2 of the manuevers they pull if they was 75% to 100% fuel....I prob get called on that assumption though!
You hear alot saying keep it fast, never drop below 250 or 300 etc......well, no matter what I am flying there will be times a fight will get very very slow near a snails crawl! so it is important to know how your steed will react thru out the entire envelope 500 IAS all way down to 0 IAS...the reason I trim my plane out in level flight is so I can gain the most out of it, If I am going vertical I do not want to have the nose up and over because trim is all way up on the elevator, if I am trimmed out as I described I can almost peg the speedo needle at 25 IAS to 0 if'in I have too..most times I prob get down around 70 to 80 though in a knife fight
might I add, I have seen some of the weirdest spins/wobbles/stalls from people using CT when slow and it has their elevator trimmed to the max UP, with the way I have ine trimmed, I actually feel like I can regain E faster when I nose down because I am not fighting the CT ( does this make sense to anyone? )
I am just your average flyer here, but I encourage all to practice and push your plane to the breaking point / edge of the flight envelope from high speed to no speed! hope I explained my thoughts to you good enough :-)
