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Offline Slade

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The Experiment
« on: February 10, 2009, 06:09:55 PM »
Howdy,

Starting Feb. 2 to Feb. 10 I took up each fighter plane in alpha order, got a kill in it, then moved on to the next plane.  The stats only seemed to want to start around Feb. 4 or so so my 1st planes do not register for this month. 

I do not recommend this for the score fixated!!! :lol

I learned a lot about these planes.  I keep learning small nuances about them all.  I crashed many of them several times in re-learning them!

One caveat, I intentionally did not take the last two P-38s to a kill though I flew them.  I lost patience with these (I use a mouse and actually prefer this).  38 is a great plane - I am just an average pilot.

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Offline Dadsguns

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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2009, 08:54:09 PM »
Not even sure if I have flown every single plane yet... maybe one of the 38's... good job.


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Offline uptown

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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2009, 10:02:22 PM »
It's a great learning tool to do that. It helps to know what the enemys plane can and can't do. I did that for awhile, flying a different plane the whole tour. I missed my 51 after about the 4th month though and stopped  :lol
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Offline crazyivan

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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2009, 10:09:22 PM »
tryin a few different planes myself  hopefully. Im waiting for the owns all planes comment. :rofl
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Offline Slade

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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2009, 06:30:33 AM »
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It helps to know what the enemys plane can and can't do.

Yes. If nothing else I understand my opponents chess piece a little bit better.
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Offline druski85

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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2009, 08:56:49 AM »

Flies everything in the plane set and uses a mouse?  Sounds like someone else I know...  :rock


I find this game so much more fun if you continuously switch up aircraft.  Like every other aspect of my life, I prefer to be a jack of all trades, master of none   :lol

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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2009, 09:40:51 AM »
What did you shoot down in your C47?  :O
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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2009, 10:24:24 AM »
wtg slade
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Offline Slade

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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2009, 11:10:58 AM »
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What did you shoot down in your C47?

I only used fighter planes (no bombers etc.).  :salute
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Offline Estes

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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2009, 02:46:44 PM »
Am I the only one who thought of Mr Black when reading the title "The Experiment"? Of course, mr blacks was always expereerereiments.

Offline Bosco123

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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2009, 03:03:58 PM »
Not to be one uping you, but SkyRock flew every single plane and got 2 kills in it and landed. He said the goon flight was the easiest because a bunch of B24s augerd right in front of him.

Did this a couple weeks back, congrats though. :salute
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Offline BaldEagl

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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2009, 03:35:30 PM »
Not to be one uping you, but SkyRock flew every single plane and got 2 kills in it and landed. He said the goon flight was the easiest because a bunch of B24s augerd right in front of him.

Did this a couple weeks back, congrats though. :salute

And he did that after reading a post in a thread where I had flown about 40 planes the month before (which I actually do pretty regularily).
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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2009, 04:36:03 PM »
If you can fly, kill and survive down low in any of the 38s, you can fly anything.  <S>
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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2009, 04:45:08 PM »
Not to be one uping you, but SkyRock flew every single plane and got 2 kills in it and landed. He said the goon flight was the easiest because a bunch of B24s augerd right in front of him.

Did this a couple weeks back, congrats though. :salute

I thought SR got ONE kill in ever plane....think you're stretching it a bit.
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Re: The Experiment
« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2009, 04:52:51 PM »
Drunken Monkeys did this as a squad challenge in tour 99.  Goal was to get two kills in everything for max points.   I think 1 kill was x points 2nd kill was y points add em all up...

Squad challenges can be fun....examples...

most kills landed in a sortie
K/D
K/S
captures
time muted/tour  :devil

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