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Offline BaldEagl

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« on: February 06, 2008, 04:53:34 PM »
2 nights ago I up a Yak9-U.  I fly out, get in a fight, a friendly flys in, I get an assist.  I get in another fight that ends up with me getting ganged and have to disengage then I have to go re-fuel.  I do and take back off.   I fly to the base I was fighting at and now there's no one there.  I go to the next base, get a kill, then get picked while I wasn't paying attention.

So I go to the other end of the map.  I up a Yak9-T.  I fly a sector and engage a La-7 who runs away.  So I fly two more sectors and kill a P-38, then, as I'm getting ganged again I die going after a set of low B-24's.

1.5 hours... 2 kills... 2 deaths.

Last night I decide to up a Spit.  To make a long story short, 1 hour, 0 kills, 4 deaths (1 pick, 1 HO/Ram Hurri, 2 to B-17's/B-24's... I'm beginning to hate buffs).

Total combined 2 nights flying; 2.5 hours, 2 kills, 6 deaths (0.28 K/D,  0.33 K/S, 0.8 K/H).  Makes you kind of want to hang it up.  At this rate, I expect to give away proxies tonight.  I'll be on between 9:30 and 10:30 CST for anyone needing a few freebies.
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Offline Guppy35

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« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2008, 05:01:46 PM »
Hmmm, sounds like the last 10 years to me.  If I hung it up based on that, I'd have been done long ago :)
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Offline A8balls

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« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2008, 05:21:07 PM »
Reminds me of a slump I had last summer. My squaddies and I were attacking a V base with a lone defender. He killed me 1-shot in my Tiger. Reupped another, same thing, I get killed in 1 shot. Between my squaddies and I, this lone defender scored 23 kills in 2 sorties with his Tiger. The lone defender??? BaldEagl
Hang in there Bro. We all have "slumps".
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Offline hubsonfire

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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2008, 05:29:15 PM »
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Hmmm, sounds like the last 10 years to me.  If I hung it up based on that, I'd have been done long ago :)


Yeah, but you're a bomber dweeb. It is assumed that you will die more and kill less than the average fighter dweeb.
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Offline SPKmes

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« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2008, 05:34:21 PM »
is that a slump. and here I was thinking I'm getting good.
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Offline Guppy35

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« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2008, 06:09:00 PM »
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Yeah, but you're a bomber dweeb. It is assumed that you will die more and kill less than the average fighter dweeb.


Jeez, I never thought of that!

It explains everything.  I feel so much better now :)
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Offline John Curnutte

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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2008, 06:15:36 PM »
You know I had asked that same thing and had a post called slump in flying and to everyone there was great ideas on pulling out of it and members from all 3 countrys offered very real and good advice . i tried a combination from all exhamples and found it to help alot . Check out the forums from 3 weeks ago and you will find it , read it and enjoy it .
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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2008, 06:30:56 PM »
The BIGGEST help in geting out of a slump is to never drive a Tiger again! :D
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« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2008, 06:40:03 PM »
What arena where you in that you had to fly that far to find a fight?
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« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2008, 05:52:35 AM »
First rule in a slump, go back to basics.

Second rule, image is nothing, obey your thirst to kill.

Find the biggest red dar bar you can find, dive in a niki into it, don't intend to live.

Just intend to kill as many as you can before they kill you.


If you get lucky and get 2 or 3, cool, get out, go land em.

Some have had good luck starting to fly a really difficult new plane.
Doesn't work for me, I just get more frustrated. But its worth a try, knocks you out of the rut your in. Forces you to rethink what your doing and how.

Last, no slump lasts forever. There are good tours and bad ones, and at the end of this one will be another one. So forget score, forget everything but why you started flying in the first place.

The sheer LOVE of flying, the RUSH of combat! The Thrill of victory, the Agony of Defeat.  :)
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Offline Larry

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« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2008, 06:05:00 AM »
Roll a SpitXVI or La7 youll be fine and land at least five kills.
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« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2008, 06:17:23 AM »
Yeah bummer when you get a run of bad luck. Had similar deal few weeks back, two sorties two assists and two deaths 1 to puf ack 2nd to field ack enemy captured base while landing a oil hit... :mad:

Yak9U is a great ride though, thoroughly enjoying it since my return and will be sticking with it for quite some time to come as a sole ride.


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« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2008, 06:18:39 AM »
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What arena where you in that you had to fly that far to find a fight?


Big Maps off Peek maybe 70 ppl logged on, kills can be few and far between.


...-Gixer
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Offline Shuffler

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« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2008, 07:51:59 AM »
You were a cartoon pilot for a few hours...... that was fun.  Think back a few years when the only way to do that was sleep n dream.

If I ever find myself in that position I will have video of inverted hanger passes and bridge passes............. maybe see how far I can get the 38 to fall in reverse...
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Offline mussie

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« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2008, 08:43:24 AM »
Bah If I get one kill in a sortie I am happy
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