Originally posted by LYNX
Batfink me ol fruit you said
dumping ammo weight does help plane performance even if only in small fractions.
please, either of you, show me where i said i dump ammo or where i said it makes a HUGE difference....... it makes A difference, that is what i said, and that is what is true.
To which I said
It don't matter a RATS ARSE
A paltry amount of ammo weight ain't worth Jack watermelon when it comes down to it. Your either going to get shot down or your doing the shooting down. I for one would prefer to go into a fight fully tooled up mate. Nothing worse than running outta ammo when you have the edge especially, I would imagine, if you pissed the ammo away needlessly.
Half the folks reading this will take it that you mean pissing ammo away does indeed give an edge. Like I said you carry on punting the myth. It'll make no difference to me. 
As for my analogy of being loaded to the gunnel's with fuel. One would think fuel weighs more than ammo. Now I'm aware I'm not the best in here but I'll wager I hold me own. So I must be at a clear disadvantage every time I up with 100% + drops + all me bleedin ammo.
I must be easy prey for those guys with just 30% fuel left and half their ammo. Just putting about ruling the roost they are.....yer right.
So are you advocating blowing ammo gives you an edge because if so I say here's something for your pipe It don't matter a RATS ARSE. Smoke that.
like i said, quoted above... 'if only in small fractions'... as vulcan points out it may be alot different than you think in planes youre not accustomed to.
all i am saying here is that having less ammo on board does reduce your weight, and reducing the weight in most of these virtual planes does impact performance to some degree.
I am not advocating dumping ammo, when i fly a 190A5 i load up as much ammo and cannons as possible, just like you i like to have surplus at my disposal rather than the decrease in load weight.
as dedalos said, dumping ammo in DA isnt going to get you silky skills if you cant beat the opponent anyhow.
As Vulcan points out, in a hurricane2c you can afford to take 100% and drop tanks and it still zips around like an RV8. same with the high end spits. La7 pilot would be a fool not to load 100% every time with our X2 burn rate.
Equally, we can concede, flying the 190 weight is not an issue if you intend to fly from the advantage the whole time and not risk pushing your luck
but youre flying your arse off in a P47 trying to rope something far more nimble in a situation where 50yrds extra climb is the difference between being raked with hispano or flipping over just out of reach and doing the raking yourself. in the 190 it might make that difference between snap stalling at the critical moment or rolling a perfect manouver and lining up an easy shot that you wont ever get a second chance on.
the 'myth' as you call it is indeed very real, its a subtle thing though, not an obvious awareness, only really noticed by those that really 'feel' the virtual aircraft they fly.
if you are not pushing the plane you fly right to the edge and learning to control that fine line then obviously it 'dont matter a rats arse'
