I've been thinking about subscribing to AH2 for about a month now and finially signed up last night.
Ordinarilly this isnt the type of "game" that I'm drawn to. I haven't recently use any kind of sim "game", heck the last one I can remember was an F16 sim way back in 95 or so. If I remember correctly it came packaged with a Thrustmaster joystick.
However after trying out the free trial, and lurking around the forums I finially decided to give it a go. The deciding factor was actually the helpfulness of the people posting on the "Help and Training" forums. I've heard alot of very simple and basic questions asked, and with very few exceptions they have been answered in a polite and helpful manner. I'm much impressed.
I'm fairly comfortable with the basics of flight, what the various control surfaces do, and to some extent, how they can work together to make an aircraft perform various manuvers. Some of the advanced manuvers are going over my head at the moment, but I'm sure I'll have the "eureka!" moment and it will all make sense. Hopefully that will happen sooner rather than later.
Fortunately I'm fairly bright and have already found the answeres to many of my questions, but as is the case with any new player, I have some questions that I havent (yet) been able to figure out.
As I'm a little pressed for time right now I'll make my question(s) simple. I've figured out how to do the Immelman, Split-S, and a rough interpretation of a barrel roll. The Yo-Yo and scissors are proving to be a bit more of a challenge for me. Does anyone have a video (training or combat) that shows either or both of these manuvers? I went here
http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/ and found videos of the split-s and immelman, but I havent been able to reproduce the yo-yo based on the diagram given.
On that same site is a slideshow by Badboy showing a rolling scissors and while it was helpful, I'd still like to see a video. As I understand it, the rolling scissors is 2 planes performing barrel rolls to gain a gun solution. Hopefully I'm not too far off, and if I am, I'm sure someone will enlighten me.
I figure once I can master the various manuvers and perform them reliably I can begin to figure out when to use which manuver based on the situation.
I'm out of time, but I'd like to thank you for the responses I'm sure are coming.
Edit: I R teh gud speeler ... jeesh!