interesting responses in the best and worst

[yanksfan]

Originally posted by Tiger
Is it possible to hijack your own thread?

Everyone stay calm, and nobody gets hurt! I'm taking this thread to Cuba!

[storch]

Originally posted by Vudak
Well we're on the same page then, because that's the sort of thing that keeps me coming back to this game

But it's important to remember, if we want to keep having fights like that, we've got to keep encouraging people to try difficult things...  Because that Hog pilot didn't get like that by running away.

(And I realize the way we "encourage" is often by all means a stretch of that word )

the first fight I had with you last night is that kind of stuff.  brilliant P47 flying there vudak.  

[dedalos]

Originally posted by evenhaim
Ty sir i respected the help and had a great time to boot, i kinda miss the days when i first began, when nearly every encounter with a countrymen was of this quality.

You miss the good old times where people in FM2s were trying to HO you then clime 15K and try to HO you again and again and again ?

[dedalos]

Originally posted by Ghastly
I'm pretty much done turning against an experienced pilot when I'm in my Corsair and he's in a Yak or a Spit or a C205 or one of the other more maneuverable aircraft.  

Hey, you keep flying your plane at its strengths bud  F4U1-D for example, will smack the crap out of a Yak or 205 in a turn fight.  The spit, is a fair game.  I put a 6 x 2 on top of my bath tab the other day and I was able to out turn a 205

Keep flying your planes at their strengths

[Xasthur]

Originally posted by dedalos
 or maybe, they have no clue what their plains strengths are.  For example, Germans did not create 190s for the purpose of HOing, cherry picking, and vulching.  I have not seen any official documents on that but I think I am right

I think you'll find that cherry picking was one of its strengths.

If I was flying a 190 in a real war that's what I'd be doing. Forget turning. I'd be sitting at 20k+ picking off the Yaks and Las that couldn't perform up there. I certainly wouldn't be hanging around with Jugs up high.

Cherry picking was a perfectly logical way to fight. Keeps pilots alive and kills the enemy.

Eric Hartmann said that dogfighting was pointless, he dived in on his targets from behind and then extended for a repeat.

[dedalos]

Originally posted by Xasthur
I think you'll find that cherry picking was one of its strengths.

If I was flying a 190 in a real war that's what I'd be doing. Forget turning. I'd be sitting at 20k+ picking off the Yaks and Las that couldn't perform up there. I certainly wouldn't be hanging around with Jugs up high.

Cherry picking was a perfectly logical way to fight. Keeps pilots alive and kills the enemy.

Eric Hartmann said that dogfighting was pointless, he dived in on his targets from behind and then extended for a repeat.

Very true!  I keep saying that! I would do the same in real war.  That is probably true for every plane.  It is all the P38s did too.  Gang and pick.  What I am saying is that you can fight in any plane.  Every one has its strengths, use them.  Once again, fighting DOES NOT MEAN turning.  If that was true all you had to do was pull hard on the stick and the guy in the better turning plane would always win.

The real problem is that people do what they do and when called on it, they blame the plane and not them selfs.  If you really think that is all a particular plane can do, why are you in it?  If every one flew that way, would there be anyone to cherry pick?