Please - no more cockamime 'evade' type answers. I know a little about buff flying. I deal quite effectively with most fighter engagements, and I'll be dealing with those N1K attacks just fine thanks very much.
My issue is the flight modelling of those aircraft. I'm amazed that they can so readily climb like that and then without any pause to regain 'e' simply pull up.
Lemme explain one last time:
. N1K spotted at 5.9 *below* me.
. Evasives and returned fire with other engaged cons, who have usually had to climb up to me outside gun range, regain e and then begin their attacks
. N1K continues climbing as fast as it can
. Other cons continue working me, gradually wearing me down
. N1K is still climbing at the same rate, has now reached 1.1 distance; at this point any other aircraft would have to lessen it's rate of climb or level out for a moment
. Instead, these N1Ks are comfortably pulling back on the stick, spraying the underside of my buff and either completing a loop or levitating up on magic e they pulled out of a hat into my plane - with no hesitation after the climb, no pause. It's climb, climb, climb, loop.
I know fine how to evade, which is how I survive the other engaging cons, my issue here is - how come the N1K can pull that stunt off, that seems way out of whack; you do that in a 190 or a 109 and you will spin when you yank back on the stick, unless you stop and recover some e, or ease up on the climb. You can't just climb up on a high-alt buff and then pull back on the stick at it.
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