Some days you have it some days you don't....

[Dingy]

 

Now Dingy, who is the good pilot? The one with "really cool evasives" when a bandit gets on his six, or the one who never gets into a situation with a bandit on his six at all.

Well regardless of how well you work on your SA, there will be times when you are forced into conflict with a higher enemy.  Rather than resign yourself to defeat since the bandit has an E advantage, why not learn how to use E against him.  I dunno how many new pilots havent learned this valuable lesson that "too much E" can be a bad thing.  That was just my point.  An E advantage can be neutralized.

-Ding



[This message has been edited by Dingy (edited 02-09-2000).]

[Lephturn]

Verminator, you are right on.
The reason I mention "not taking thing too seriously", is that generally when somebody gets in a rut they get frustrated and stop having fun. #1 goal for me is to get 'em relaxed and having fun. Once that is accomplished, an excercise such as you mention can really pay off.  Great excercise btw, I'll share a couple I have used.

Back when I was a WB trainer, I used to get new pilots to fly nothing but the Spit V for two weeks. I used this for gunnery training, as the Spit has great guns, but vey limited ammo. Flying a Spit V for two weeks will get your gunnery percentage up, I guarantee.  From the looks of things I'm going to be able to use the same exercise here in AH very soon too.

Another good excercise is to pilot a turn fighter and fly it as a BnZ platform for a couple of weeks. If you think Spits are tough as turnfighters, you'll be blown away how good they can be as BnZ platforms. The general effect of this is to teach a TnB type some energy management techniques, and get him familiar with the limits of his airplane. TnB pilot that learns energy management well is a dangerous adversary indeed!

Anybody else have any good training excercises to suggest?



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Lephturn
The Flying Pigs