Ahhh the misconception of knowledge and implementing of ACM and SA. You can think it, talk about it and swear by it all you want, unless you actually learn to apply it means nothing.
I’m sure this sermon has run it’s course, but here goes it anyway, I’m bored.
IMO,…
One thing you have to understand about Lev, AH is NOT his first BBQ. Long before AH came along he's been handing people their ars, consistently, including AW. He’s still flown AW more then he’s flown AH, if that bench marks anything.
There is no mystery to his flying ability. He's in tune with things that make it all work as one. Constant SA and years of learning which ACM to use against which situation until it's second nature, on top place knowing all limits of the AC you fly, and never cross them.
“Legendary Gunfighters”, which is what Lev is, are always scrutinized, studied and challenged. There's always someone who wants that thrown, it's an intense ego thing for some. People who constantly challenge and lose will call him a cheater, a sucky pilot, "he's not all that good" excuse after excuse as to why they lost. Every excuse, expect the right two combined.
1) Lev has been around in flight sims a long time, he's no newbie who games the game, and he chooses one of the best planes to do it in. (Gee, what a concept) He's someone you want to learn from. he knows his plane well.
2) Any fight you lose you lose at you're own fault, for allowing the enema a clean shot. Their selection of ACM for the situation was wrong, and most likely their choice of plane to fly doesn’t fit their piloting style or the ACM needed to over come situation
IMO the difference also comes between a gamer and a simmer. Who’s being the gamer and who’s being the simmer? My bets are on Lev being the simmer.
There's nothing mysterious about Lev's reversals, he's just damn good at them in a plane that will allow them to happen, throw in second nature ACM and you’re there.
Next to the P-51, the Spit ( I assume Lev is still flying the spit) are one of the best planes to use in a dogfight. The ego thing where as "I refuse to fly a spit or 51" is over rated. They are the best planes. Why someone would call fowl when they take a sub standard dogfighting plane and use it in a knife fight with the superior dogfighting plane, then wonder why they lost, is totally beyond me. Some planes were not made for dogfighting, yet you have people trying to be super natural *god like* and make it happen *against odds. Then mystified when a plane that IS designed for dogfighting hands them their ars. The concept that “I’m going to turn my FW into a Spit killing machine,…” is a fallacy, and a pipe dream. But some feel it will make them god like if they do, which is true, but you have a long climb to make that happen. Choose your fights wisely.
Why on earth would someone flying a eg…FW consciously choose a fight with a Spit, P-51, P-38? He's hoping the pilot sucks, because the plane sure doesn’t..
The odds are with Lev and he uses them. Study what he does, as you are here, he’s not a god, he’s just damn good.
