I'm glad we've got the spit16 now, because it's done to the training wheels crowd (aka stallfighters) what the lamer7 has long been doing to us who fly real mens' planes (aka E-fighters). Now, hopefully, everybody can see the evils of the situation, whereas before the ignorant dweeb masses never grokked the problem with the lamer7 because they had no constraint against getting a slower ride that could slightly out-turn it. Unable to comprehend how to convert speed into angles via vertical moves, the concept of NEEDING to be fast to fly a given ride went right over their heads. But now those slower, lamer-7 proof stallfighting rides are threatened by the spit16, and so the stallfighting dweebs now have their own version of The Plane That Must Be Perked. Oh happy day
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From the POV of my Dora, the advent of the spit16 has actually made things easier. Sure, it's a bit faster than the 9 that it's essentially replaced, and rolls better, but that just makes it an easier target for me because the speed differential isn't so great when I come down off a high yoyo. Furthermore, the 16 stalls out in a hard turn at a higher speed than the 9, which means I don't have to burn as much E bleeding it down before I kill it. The 16 is just as fragile as the 9, its wings succumbing easily to the fire of even a C.202, which I fly whenever the Dark Gods decree I must flagellate myself. And back before the 16, almost everybody used the .50s instead of the .303s in the 9 anyway, so the firepower's a wash. So now I see the stalldweeb side of the lamer7--all the whining I hear "that other crowd" doing about the spit16 means less than sheep droppings to me, as it's apparent my justified complaints about the lamer7 have meant to the dweebs.
Thus, if those of you who haven't outgrown training wheels Hate the spit16 so much now because it limits your fun and survivable choices of rides, perhaps you all can now appreciate the problems that the lamer7 poses to us professionals. Our respective Planes That Must Be Perked have the same effect on us all. My hope is that the time has come for us to reach across the great stallfighter/E-fighter divide and find common cause against these game-busting planes. Perk them both! If you bottomfeeding dweebs will support our call to perk the lamer7, I can promise in return that those of us of the One True Faith will support your call for the perking of the spit16. As I see it, neither of us is giving up anything, because the lamer7 means nothing to you, while the spit16 means nothing to me. But vice versa, it's a different story. Surely, this is the dawn of a new age of cooperation between us predators and you prey
And maybe, just maybe, if we can all come together on these issues, perhaps I might quit being so condescending to you stallfighters
