Badboy's Energy Management Article

[Jekyll]

WTG badboy on your excellent article on AimHQ re energy management.

For those who have trouble reading E-M diagrams, I've pirated one of Badboy's (Showing Spit IX-P51 comparison) and made a few modifications.

The beauty of E-M diagrams is that they not only show you what an aircraft can do, but also suggest what kind of tactics you should employ when faced with a dissimilar enemy aircraft.

 

Hopefully, its self-explanatory.  Equally hopefully, its correct  

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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Chapter 13, verse 11

[Badboy]

Hi Jekyll,

Thanks.

You seem to have a pretty good grasp of things. Even though it would seem that the Spitfire should want to get the fight into that orange zone as soon as he can, I prefer to stay as high into that yellow zone for as long possible. If you get greedy and pull into the orange too soon, the good P-51 drivers have little difficulty leaving the fight. I hate letting them get away like that, so I stay as fast as I can as long as I can, and only pull hard enough to stay neutral. That way, you might even fool the P-51 driver into thinking he is fighting a dweeb, and bleeding his own E...  

Anyway, I like what you have done, I may do something similar in future  

 
Badboy