How do you think you would do in RL air combat?

[GRUNHERZ]

Hi

Do you think your flightsim experience like in AH would be of any use whatsoever if somehow you ended up in a WW2 air battle (provided that you got basic WW2 pilot training). Would you make begginers mistakes like trying to outurn Zeros in a P40, or climbing with zooming 109 or 190? Could you actually hit anything? Could you actually do a good boom-and-zoom attack, or do a good scissors fight vs that 190? And so on. Lets have some fun with this and see just how you think your flightsim skills would help?

thanks GRUNHERZ

[Ripsnort]

100 sit-ups on an incline board, with a 45 lb. weight on me chest, 3 times a week...I think I'd be able to handle the G loads!

As to combat, I'm not sure. I've done well in 'panic mode' situations before, having a gun pulled on me a few times, and shot at me once.

[LePaul]

Is there a cup holder in a real F4 for my beer?  Opps, they'd frown on that...

 

Paul

[danish]

Like s***, would be too afraid to die.

danish

[TheWobble]

I wouldent take on any of the aircraft in this game with anything less than an f-18 in real life.

[Apache]

I would do pretty good I think. I would simply jump in a P51, alt-monkey for a couple of hours and if I did get bounced, I would run like a girlyboy   .

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[Ripsnort]

ROTFLOL Apache!

[Swager]

There were the hunters and the one secretly knew they were going to get hunted. I would of fallen into the latter.

Know my luck, my first opponent would of been someone like Heinz Bar, "Wutz" Galland, or Karl Borris!

 

[danish]

Not to speak badly about the dead, but Karl Boris would give you some room.Just fly agressivly and he would run.Of course he could also set his kaczmarek up as bait, let you kill him and then get you..
But ok he survived the war, a remarkably thing it itself as he was engaged from day one.

danish

PS: and no I cannot quote anything, but those lines between the lines..

[-ammo-]

Depends... Did they have icons?
 

[Torque]

As to combat, I'm not sure. I've done well in 'panic mode' situations before, having a gun pulled on me a few times, and shot at me once.Oh my God no way really?

Marriage is HELL Rip.

I would be scared fecal less, the thought of people shooting metal projectiles to disfigure me.

[mrbeef]

if were ever attacked by something i would bail out and hope the canopy shoots out with my chair

[RAM]

When I was 18 I faced three elkarri (pro-HB) guys. As my mouth is as big as it is, and I dont use to shut up what I think, they beat the hell outta me. Ended with a broken leg, fisures in an arm and severely blacked out eyes. I still think I was lucky.

I would do it again, if I face those three abnomals yelling "gora ETA". But this time I'd not be alone  

(you dont know what is HB in USA, but lets say they are the ETA's Sinn Fein...Elkarri is something like an "ETA-jugend", being ETA a radical terrorist group in the line of IRA...but without a real excuse)


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[easymo]

 Would have to carry a spare flightsuit with me, for those uuhh Accidents;D

 This is no small matter BTW. Ill tell you a RL war story.

 I was on guard duty one night. I and a partner were in a bunker, guarding a supply depot. Some stray rounds thudded into the sandbags, and he relived himself into his jungle fatigues. It was monday (malaria pill day) and he had the trots. Well, after a couple of hours in this 8x10, airless bunker. I was ready to shoot the bastard myself and drag his body out side

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[Pongo]

The bad habits you get in AH would probably kill you faster than any edge you gained from all the deflection practice.