Author Topic: La 7 (Read 4042 times)

Stang · « **Reply #60 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:26:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
Just because it allows you to get kills easily doesn't mean it's a great plane. The gas mileage blows big time. The acceleration is retarded (once you slow down everything will catch you, EVERYthing). The ammo is adequate but the guns themselves are ridiculous.

I really try to take you seriously, I really do... but repeated posts like this make it hard.

g00b · « **Reply #61 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:29:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
I got that impression flying it. Even in a steep 45-degree dive for several thousand feet the speed only builds up after a prolonged dive. If you lose any speed you're often going to hurt. You're good at accelerating through the lower bands, but you can't get to "escape speed" if there's anybody behind you.

Check out the plane comparisons here Krusty, you might be surpsrised.

http://www.gonzoville.com/ahcharts/index.php?

Latrobe · « **Reply #62 on:** September 08, 2006, 03:07:29 PM »

La7 top of the list of plane to shoot down first (or atleast in top 5) if i fly it ill die almost instantly

FBBone · « **Reply #63 on:** September 08, 2006, 03:42:37 PM »

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Originally posted by SkyRock
It would be easier to name 4 that couldn't! But here are 4: Spit16, F4u-1, f4u-1c, f4u-1D. Here are 4 more: Spit9, f4u-4, hurri2-c, a6m5b. Here are 4 more: 109k-4, p51D, Spit8, spit5.

Agreed...........

Krusty · « **Reply #64 on:** September 08, 2006, 03:53:10 PM »

Goob I've checked 'em out. The numbers say one thing. Actually flying it totally feels like another thing. All I know is that from the 150-250 range it is good once it has speed, but if you chop for the overshoot you wallow for a bit while others seem to speed by you.

It's just a perception, but that's the way it feels to me.

fireplug1111 · « **Reply #65 on:** September 08, 2006, 06:35:57 PM »

I dont have a problem with the LA7, what I do have a problem with is the fact that some people cant dogfight in them. They set their convergance all the way out and HOOOOO PEOPLE. I NEVER take a head to head shot I always let them fly past and then start my fight. BUT the LA7 people insist on firing as we pass. IMO thats a poor mans way of flying. The other day I sat in the MA and counted as people landed. So & so landed 5 victories in a LA7, so & so landed 8 victories in a LA7, ect ect.....
point made.
I went into the DA with someone who insisted that he was good in a LA7 we took up P-51Ds and out of the 7 flights he shot me down once. Then he upped a LA 7 and got me 4 times I got him none. We both took up LA7s and out of 4 flights it was even at 2 each.
Its a HOOOOIN plane nothing else.
PERK IT.

Lusche · « **Reply #66 on:** September 08, 2006, 07:00:39 PM »

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Originally posted by fireplug1111
I dont have a problem with the LA7, what I do have a problem with is the fact that some people cant dogfight in them. They set their convergance all the way out and HOOOOO PEOPLE. I NEVER take a head to head shot I always let them fly past and then start my fight. BUT the LA7 people insist on firing as we pass. IMO thats a poor mans way of flying. The other day I sat in the MA and counted as people landed. So & so landed 5 victories in a LA7, so & so landed 8 victories in a LA7, ect ect.....
point made.
I went into the DA with someone who insisted that he was good in a LA7 we took up P-51Ds and out of the 7 flights he shot me down once. Then he upped a LA 7 and got me 4 times I got him none. We both took up LA7s and out of 4 flights it was even at 2 each.
Its a HOOOOIN plane nothing else.
PERK IT.

Ok, first you state that the "problem" are the people flyin the La7, not the plane itself. You bring a little example for that. But that you claim the La7 itself is the HOIN machine, and you want to see it perked. Isn´t that a bit contradicting? According to first half of you post, nothing would change. Those LA flyers would certainly continue to HO in other planes. (Possibly even in planes more suited to Ho)
And as a side note, I´ve been Ho´ed by P38 & P51 as much as by La7s...

FALCONWING · « **Reply #67 on:** September 08, 2006, 10:12:51 PM »

Its a great plane for what i do: pork and intercept

Nobody even bothered to mention the worse part aboout a LA7....the teeny perks..land 7 killls...2.5 perks...land 2 kills in a LA5 and 30 perks...

whydo people hate it??

1. It is not a newb plane....most la7s are piloted by vets...newbs use spits because they are more forgiving. In inexperinced hands the la7 loses most turnfights quickly. Too many ways to screw this baby up

2. folks that play for perks and score hate it because it catches them and eats them. i firmly believe they would fly it except for the fact that you dont get points or perks for the kills.

Max · « **Reply #68 on:** September 08, 2006, 11:20:23 PM »

Definition of insanity -

Repetition of the same action, thinking or motion which always concludes with the same results.

Insert graphic of beaten horse here ------->

SkyRock · « **Reply #69 on:** September 09, 2006, 12:41:02 AM »

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Originally posted by Viking
I started out in the Spit V (for nostalgic reasons I guess), but most people would just ignore me and run to wherever they were going. Speed is what I need and the La-7 looked to be the speed king. Now I totally PWN people in it. It is totally and absolutely UBER and I LOVE it!

Leave it alone.

The speed of the la7 is exactly what I use against it to pwn them everytime!

bkbandit · « **Reply #70 on:** September 09, 2006, 01:13:41 AM »

What criteria does a plane have to meet in order for aces high to perk it. Is it production numbers, last i remember there werent many nik's produces, but then there were almost as many f4u4 as there were f4u1ds. BUt then there werent many la7s with 3 cannons, a thread awhile back had the numbers on la7s produced with 3 cannons, i dont recall but there were in the 100's. Last i heard f4u1c was perked because there was like 20% f4ucs in the arena, but how long ago was that. Im pretty sure the times have changed since then. Whats the current numbers now, i noe la7 ranks up there high.

Reynolds · « **Reply #71 on:** September 09, 2006, 03:43:14 AM »

DO NOT PERK THE La-7!!! Okay, its good that a lot of people fly them. If you fly a P-40E, or the 109E, and you should manage to kill an La-7 because some dweeb flies it badly, do you KNOW how many perk points that is?!?

bkbandit · « **Reply #72 on:** September 09, 2006, 03:44:47 AM »

who cares about perk points?

Reynolds · « **Reply #73 on:** September 09, 2006, 04:24:33 AM »

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Originally posted by bkbandit
who cares about perk points?

When you suck as much as me, every one of them counts.

The Fury · « **Reply #74 on:** September 09, 2006, 05:15:16 AM »

I fly the spit16 quite a lot what a great plane it is too but if it meant perking it to get the la-7 perked i would go for it i hate that plane everyone wants to run away in it or boom and zoom what a boring fight it usually is as soon as i get behind mr la-7 he runs like a girl until i am really far away or i get bored and turn around then he wants to fight me usually by hoing just my opinion. I dont think the spit16 should be perked.