AKOwl flies the F6F like no one I have seen.
Like all US planes, it suffers from not having cannons. (the C Hog being the exception).
I find the 6 gun package to be a bit weak for someone of my gunnery skills.
However, the 8 gun package of the Jug is pretty effective in a snap shot situation on fighters. You definately lose performance in the Jug by taking 8 guns. I.e., the roll rate seems less. And it is heavier. But for me the added effectiveness of the firepower more than makes up for the performance hit. Like the in the A8, where I took the 4 - 20mm package.
I don't like the rear view of the F6F, I feel to vulnerable in what is the most critical area of SA: your mid-low six. I spend more time looking at my six than my 12. I am constantly scanning with my hat switch, and rolling to check my low 6. It is in the massive furballs where you need to see as soon as a bogey starts to line you up, not when he is D600. I often shake bogeys that start to line me up at 1.5K or greater by showing them, (or at least deluding them into thinking) that I am in a higher e state than I am. Also, alerting them to the fact that I know they are there, they will often break off and look for an easier kill.
In the F6F, I often don't see them until they are D600, and comitted to their attack. Which means I then have to go into defensive manuevers that bleed more enegry, making me a target for more bogeys, I bleed more speed, add more bogeys, then add a walk back to the hangar.
