A Salute to 1wingovr

[SgtPappy]

P38's are flown by effeminate lady-boys with shriveled gonads.

Lol ouch. Just because we use funky-looking yokes to control the plane does NOT make us less macho 

LOL!  Never knew so many fairies flew the Spitfire.  You guys are getting all riled up for no reason, no one ever said the P-38 was any better or worse than the Spitfire.  All that was said was the Spitfire is an easy plane to fly, doesn't matter what the guy that said it flies, it could have been said by anyone that flies any other plane.

ack-ack

I hope that in bold makes things clearer. Being Canadian, I flew the Spitfire for some time. All the war stories I heard from the veterans, all the fun things I could do with it in the game. After a while, I started reading up more about my own country's history and found the P-38 tobe an amazing plane. Depending on where you're coming from, it can be stated that the Spitfire is just as easy to fly as  the P-38. Before the rest of the SAPPers kill me, let's say this: most green pilots instinctively start to turn fight with any plane they fly against any plane they encounter. All it takes is a simple mentality change (which I'm sure has happened at least to one green player) to show that the world of air combat is a 3D world and everything that is done in the horizontal should more or less be done in the vertical whilst flying the UFO-like Lightning.

On the other hand, most green players don't realize this and so it can also be stated that, for the general population, the Lightning is more difficult to fly than the Spitfire. I know Spitfire and Lightning pilots don't get along too well, but the SAPPers are NOT trying to insult anyone here. I'm on both sides because I really like both planes and from my POV, it's just a horrible mentality that has been set up on both sides alike. On one side, people know that their a/c is more difficlut to fly while the other side knows that their easier-to-fly plane takes just as much skill to fly effectively which, for the most part, is probably true. The unfortunate thing is that even though both sides realize this, they are looking trough the wall of 'MY PLANE IS BETTER THAN YOURS' that has been setup wayyy too many times already. So let's all look at each other like fellow fliers and pilots of the REAL THING because if I ever said that RL Lightning pilots lacked gonads, I'd be deserved of a world of hurt.

[zoozoo]

thats like saying the smartest kid in summer school.

 
yup

[mensa180]

The P38 would survive longer as he would be most likely to climb to about 15-20k. Unlikely to get any kills but probably easily make it home in one piece. P38 is very very easy to BnZ then run home in. Very.

Spit pilot would most likely stay below 10k and most likely get a few chances at a kill before he died and reupped and came back to fight again.

The main difference being that the P38 feels ok to fly so timidly because....gasp...he is the man flying the plane which takes so much skill....whereas the spit pilot is more likely to just jump in and have fun.

Again bat, your experience is showing.  You are assuming the newb would have enough sense to do this before getting suckered into too far to the Spits game.

[DoNKeY]

Sure, I believed that then, but I've since changed my opinion on the matter.  I like to think that's part of being human; experiencing certain things/situations and changing your views (or making your current views stronger).  I had really didn't understand' the spitfire and what it was/wasn't capable of doing, I just went of what other people said as I really hadn't flown and experienced the spit family.  Before you go checking my scores though, yes I did fly a few models of the spit, the first 2 or 3 months I was playing the game.  They also accounted for a fraction of my total kills/time flying.  Needless to say, I was still trying to get my gears up then, and didn't develop an understanding of the spit that I could use later.

I might even go so far to say that the 38 could be easier for a newer person to fly.  They're not going to have any torque to fight, and if they do go over the edge, the 38 is very easy to recover (unless your counting that auto reply flaps spin thing, but even then vets have a hard time recovering that so...).  I think we're all under the thinking that these newer players are going to be able to magically  go out and start stall fighting like they've been doing it forever.  When I was new, all I could do was stay fast and immel/split s to save E like most of the training docs said.  I didn't go out and start setting people up for vertical reverses and then get into a rolling scissors and then make them over shoot, etc, etc.  I think newer people fight your standard stay fast, reverse in the vertical, and then go from their.  If they're just going to get into a luftberry at slow speeds, then ya, I guess the spits better?

[Shuffler]

And you're replying as if im directing everything at you.
 What i see is a salute to a someone i know being over run by P38 fanatics telling him he is unknown and worthless and for what? Is it to make the gameplay better? Is it going to stop that tard running to his ack? Is it going to clean up the conduct in the DA?
What exactly has the point been of laughing at a humble and honest gesture and discrediting his new hero?
Somehow i dont feel whatever possitive vibe you are trying to ride here.

You sure read alot into a short post. I never said this person is worthless... you are the only one who put worthless in a sentence with his name. I just said spits are easy to fly. I also stated that we used those in H2H for new pilots, we did simply because they are so easy to maneuver. Pretty simple really..... I also do not care what he flies as long as he has fun. I fly the 38 but I never said anything about it in that post. You should calm down and have some fun in RL for awhile.

[Shuffler]

The P38 would survive longer as he would be most likely to climb to about 15-20k. Unlikely to get any kills but probably easily make it home in one piece. P38 is very very easy to BnZ then run home in. Very.

Spit pilot would most likely stay below 10k and most likely get a few chances at a kill before he died and reupped and came back to fight again.

The main difference being that the P38 feels ok to fly so timidly because....gasp...he is the man flying the plane which takes so much skill....whereas the spit pilot is more likely to just jump in and have fun.

Maybe you should come into the MA. You'll find the 80th fighting otd in 38s. We love the T&B. You won't find anything timid about us. Come by and have some fun.

[clerick]

P-38 > Spitfire










 

[cowboy73]

Ty for the salute crnbrd1    I am not the best spit driver in the game. There are to many better than me and i have a lot of respect for those guys. They were mentioned in this post <S> to them.  Get that computer Batfink   i am ready for more fun duels <S>


1wingovr <---spitdweeb and proud of it

[bongaroo]

 

Dentin, you know where that animation in your sig is from right?

A friend of mine got the Metal Slug 10 year Anthology on the Wii.  I spent alot of time playing all 6 of them.  I think the third one is my favorite right now.

[Odee]

Hmm...Just out of curiosity I glanced at my personal KoTH log.  7 round wins in P-38s (that I fly all the time), 7 round wins in spitfires (which I almost never fly).
btw, I never heard of him either

  Yeah, but then you could fly a paperclip and get kills too. 

Heard of him DA... He shot me down once, and my 38 got him twice.  He plays the vertical well, but then when you're diving in on a furbal from 15k you tend to develop a lot of excess smash to use in the vertical.

[hlbly]

Jeez is it ok that I wing with the 80th occasionally and silat frequently, being a spit pilot and all ?

[Steve]

I flew a spit9 last night, for the first time in AHII that I can recall,  and was chuckling the whole time at how easy it is to get kills in it.
I was able to defeat a very experienced 38 pilot, not once, but twice, and he had more E on both occasions.

The plane is simply easy to get kills in... EZ mode. That said, I really had a good time.... fun stuff.   

Had 2 deaths... ran out of gas once and collided with the carcass of one of my victims the other.

[thrila]

I'm going through a spitfire renaissance this tour.  Spitfires are great fun indeed:)

[Odee]

Jeez is it ok that I wing with the 80th occasionally and silat frequently, being a spit pilot and all ?

Sure it is...

Heck we in the 49th FG will even have you along...

As long as you're in a 38, 40E or 47 razorback. 

 

[mechanic]

I flew a spit9 last night, for the first time in AHII that I can recall,  and was chuckling the whole time at how easy it is to get kills in it.
I was able to defeat a very experienced 38 pilot, not once, but twice, and he had more E on both occasions.

The plane is simply easy to get kills in... EZ mode. That said, I really had a good time.... fun stuff.   

Had 2 deaths... ran out of gas once and collided with the carcass of one of my victims the other.

But do you think you know everything about how to fly that spit? do you think if you went to duel another spit pilot he wouldnt stand a chance against you? Are you as good now as you ever could be in a spitfire?