Mec, you called me?
Hello CrazyCat!
Yes, using your views is a vital part of winning/loosing a fight.
Ill assume your hatswitch is a 8-way one. You can thus use it for 9 views: default (ie hat not touched), forward, forward-left, left. back-left, back etc. Now you need an additional button on your Joystick
that you can operate at the same time as your hatswitch (!) set up for your "look up" view. Combining that button with your hatswitch will give you a total of 18 view directions. To look back up left, just look back-left on hat and hold the look up at the same time.
Now you can adjust all those view directions for maximum visibility. If you look back, by default you usually see no more then your head rest. While looking in that direction, use the arrow keys and page up/down to adjust.... all the way to the right (in most planes better turn direction is left, so having better view to the back left is helpful), up and maybe even back works good for most planes. Once you have your view as you want it hit F10 to "save head position".
You will have to do the adjustment for every view direction and every plane separatly. The head positions are stored in planetype.hps files in your Settings folder (by default, its c:\programs\HTC\Aces High II\Settings - its useful to make a back up of that settings folder, as you can always copy it back in should something get messed up or should you have to reinstall the game for some reason. That will save you a lot of work redoing all your custom settings.
An "exercise" you can do to learn how to track your opponent is this: climb to about 8 K over the airfield... then start practicing maneuvers... Loops, turns, rolls, barrels... whatever you can think of..... but keep the indestructible hangar or radar tower in your view all the time.
You can do the same with the offline drones... a little more difficult, since the drone is moving as well.
If you need a sparring partner to just practice tracking someone in a fight, come by the Training Arena. Usually youll find a "willing target" there if you ask.