Amon I wished I didn't deleted my vids from dogfights Vs 109s
From memory, ask to Martello, I know we did a 30 min dogfight one on one D30 (off course) Vs his G10.
The G10 is the one controling the fight. It is a supperior plane to the P47 overall.
The 109 strenght : Climb, top speed and guns.
The P47 strenght : Dive handling and stall speed handling.
If you are lower than a G10 and below 10k. You are in deep doodoo. The G10 can BZ you all day long and all you can do is avoid him till you end up on the deck at 150 knts. A clever 109 pilot will make a pass at you, extend a bit and zooooooooooooom way up there. It always makes me smile, looking at him go way up and when you would see other planes wing over, the G10 still goes on going satellite.
Your only chance is to tempt him to turnfight. Most underestimate the P47 semi-elliptical wings and see the P47 as a flying brick ... well it is in one way.
I personaly developed the technique of showing my six to the G10. the guy comes in for a dead 6 attak, and at 1.2 I start a sharp turn. Not too sharp, if too sharp, the G10 pilot will go back wayyyy up, and you just blew more E for nothing.
So I turn sharp, look at him following me, the closer he gets, the more I pull Gs. When he is at 400y, about to shoot (due to ammo load 109 pilots don't spray and pray like .50s planes) I do a rolling scizor and pull hard back in his line of fire (hehehe). It usually does the trick for the guy to overshoot. While doing the rolling scizor, try to keep as much E as you can, but bleed enought for not the guy to hit you.
When the G10 overshots you, then it will for sure go up, sometimes even vertical. Follow him vertical. Look how fast the range increases. If it goes 900y, 1.0, 1.1 and more then quickly wing over and dive for speed, cause the 109 will stall after you and come back in your sorry 6. If distance looks steady like 700y, 750y,800y ... then follow him. It will end up him doing his hammer head at 1k, 1.1k. The P47 will stall before him BUT you can hold the nose straight up longer than him. (I even tail slide sometimes). Little stick adjustments and rudder work can make you hold the nose straight up at 40kts. then use all your ammo load ... spray and spray. Keep spraying as he descends back toward you too, u never know, he may fly into your stream.
Even if you don't kill him, you may scare the heck out of him, and he may not HO you but evas you.
The bad part is that if you finally end up in a G10 6, he can run away from you because of his top speed... the good part is that you can spray like a madman till he is 1k ahead. Who knows, I even saw G10s going turnfight because of a single ping, but you will not fool an experten with that.
If you are engaged by a higher G10 and you are above 10K. You can dogfight it a bit or do the "go vertical and pray". ... But you have an another alternative. Show your 6 again, let the guy come in ... 1.3 1.2 1.1 ... start a shalow dive and gain speed. Be sure to reach 450TAS (109 aileron lock speed ... not elev) before he gets in your 600y. Then roll left, look at him painfully banking left. Perform a sharp right, he cannot follow you. He will then comes back up trying to turn toward you or away. Whatever he does, you still have full control of your plane, "fly circles around him" and take your shot.
You will notice that 3-4 snapshots will be necessary to bring him down, but only 1 of him can ruin your wing. Don't let any LW plane got a snapshot at you. Always do whatever it take to give him a tought shot while you manoever.
In a nuttshell : tempt him to a turnfight. It's easy to make a G10 overshoot or outmanoeuver one but then he goes waayyyy back up, leaving you down there. And you have to do everything all other again and probably die in the process
Vs a G10, once u get an edge on him, act quick and go for a kill, or he will go away and come back to get you.
if all that doesn't make sense, sorry, at least I tried to explain in words.
