Originally posted by Jester
#3: As for all the "MARK 1., GRADE A BULL CHIT" that goes on on this forum about "HO'ing" - Has got to be the biggest LOAD of garbage ever!
You find me ONE former WW2 Fighter Pilot that said he wouldn't have took a head-on shot at an enemy aircraft because it "Wasn't Cricket" and I will never do it again. I promise. Till that day, being the average pilot that I am - If I manage to get an enemy aircraft in my sights during a swirling dogfight - you can bet your Family Jewels I am going to pull the trigger no matter what angle the other aircraft happens to be placed at the time.
Anyone with half a brain knows you use every advantage that both you and your aircraft will give you. If you don't you are just plain dense or enjoy getting shot down.
Gonna disagree with your rationale on that jester.
Any WW2 pilot in a life and death fight that took a HO knew the risks if he missed. He died.
No on in AH or any other flight sim, faces that same risk. Show me one WW2 fighter pilot that would put himself in the middle of a low slow fight on the deck by choice? They wouldn't. They'd look for the best way to get the other guy while he wasn't looking with as little risk as possible because death didn't mean going to the tower and getting a new cartoon airplane. It meant you never flew again, your parts got shoveled into a hole in the ground and your parents got a telegram.
A HO shot in a flight sim where no one really dies, is just a lazy way out of the fight.
Now it's your dime, and if that's how you choose to play, go for it. But don't compare yourself and what you do flying cartoon airplanes to anything a real life WW2 combat pilot did.