If you only fly a few sorties and they all turn out well, you will have a strong rank for awhile vs the guys who have 30 sorties with a handful of bad ones...I think. Eventually, if you tried to rest on your laurels though and not fly buffs for awhile you would see your rank fall off. Is this , in very simple terms, about right HT?
Anyway, WTG on #54!:aok