Hi
Citabria G10 is not comparable to niki in this regard. It cant turn, it has the worst high speed handling of the fast planes in AH, it cant roll well , it only has 60 rounds of ammunition which is only effective at 300yds or less, the 13mm are almost useless, it has a very short combat endurance, it compresses almost immediatly in a dive, the cannon has very poor balistics-so shooting it the turn is extremly difficult, its only very fast as long the MW lasts, yak is almost as fast low and typhoon is quite a bit faster on deck, damn near every plane out-turns it at most speeds, at high speeds p51, 190, typhoon, p47, p38, yak can fly cicrles around the nearly compressed G10. It quite easy to avoid gunnery passes of G10 - as Funked pointed out a little while ago. Its only real advantages are good accel and climbrate and high speed, but these are all very difficult to use to defeat someone and get the kill. This is not true of the nikis attributes of good climb at slow speeds, 4 high velocity 20mm cannon with hundreds of rounds, best turning save zero, but better than zero at high speeds, it can outclimb p51s at 28k, again as you said its a much more "sledgehammer g pulling" type plane. Certaily there can be no sledgehammer behavior in a G10 if you wish to survive and get kills. G10 is dangerous if flown right but it just isnt in the same class as niki. Of course im biased being a G10 driver, but I really dont see how G10s attributes place it in the same ease of use class as the niki.
i consider myself a pretty good G10 pilot, and it seems kills came easier to me when I flew nikis for a long while 2 tours ago. I certainly had many many more 5 or 6 kill single flights with one load of ammo. Nonetheless I enjoy flying my G10.
thanks GRUNHERZ
