But doing a craptastic merge like the one Trigger2 did and you'll get HO'd 99% of the time. Honestly, he has no one to blame but himself. He went head on with another plane with the unrealistic hope of the other guy not taking the HO shot. He gambled and paid the price for it. However, if he knew how to merge (his posts show that he doesn't) he would easily avoid the HO merge 99% of the time.
It is also interesting to point out that everyone in his squadron uses the same craptastic merge as he does. I ran across one of the supposed TAS super-experten aces Spacy and he has the same lack of knowledge on merges as Trigger2 has. All Spacy would do is HO on the merge, so I'm not surprised anyone else in their squadron uses the same crap tactics.
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Comin in from 12 o' clock high, I wonder why it wasn't such a perfect merge...
Plus, Spacy, 99% of the time, flys a zero... and last I checked, zero's weren't all too great at HO's, so if he did try it, should be easy to counter, but, then again, I guess with your "perfect" flying, you don't know how to handle this situation eh?