IMHO-for what my first two months AH experience is worth the LA-7 is a freaking hard plane to deal with, most of the times I have been nailed by one it is from outta nowhere. Trying to track it down and slow it down is an exercise in patience. I have not noticed a lot of HO's. The Hurri seems to come at me HO almost everytime. I avoid HO's religiously, one because it is not a sound tactic, two because it leads to collisions, three because it irritates that crap outta people, and four the Spits I fly only take a scratch to be shot down. The Zeke, is another bear of a plane, I can't seem to shoot it down, I can't outturn it, so I leave it the hell alone. Again, I have not noticed any HO's. I fly the Spitfire family(Seafire, Mark IX, Mark XVI) pretty exclusively now. Yes the Mark XVI provides survivabilty due to it's capabilities. I have not noticed any HO's in the Spit, and the Spit is so easy to kill it would be suicide anyway. I agree with the old school mentality, don't steal kills, don't interfere in a 1 vs. 1 engagement (unless your country-mate has a bad turn of events), don't HO, yadda yadda. So anyway, my thought is that once I have good ACM skills learned at an novice level (Spits), then I can move up into a more tempermental, but obviously more dangerous plane. As always any feedback is appreciated, as good or bad, it only builds my knowledge on AH.