Question for all the people who call the spitfire 16 a noob plane.

[moot]

I just flew it.  Could have won a rolling 4:1 with 10 kills or more, if not for being my first flight in weeks. It's exactly like I remember it. It's a freakin UFO. I can keep lines for 2 to 4 kills for most of the fight. Biggest balls out furballing crutch in the game.

[mechanic]

Hey, look at that, Orange's method works great! (ref. 190A8 is a spit16)

they are boths planes, are they not?

[MachFly]

I just flew it.  Could have won a rolling 4:1 with 10 kills or more, if not for being my first flight in weeks. It's exactly like I remember it. It's a freakin UFO. I can keep lines for 2 to 4 kills for most of the fight. Biggest balls out furballing crutch in the game.

2-4 kills in 1 sorti is not alot. Try getting 7+ (with no re-arming) in that spitfire and then say how much of a UFO that is. Today I landed 10 kills in F4U, how come no one is screaming that it's a UFO or a noob plane for that matter?

And flying a P-38 exclusively some how makes you better than the other experienced player that likes to fly the Mk XVI exclusively?  Talk about your huge ego problems...


ack-ack

People who say "it's the pilot not the plane" are not correct.

A few month ago I took a P-40 for a ride. I encountered a P-38L and a P-51D at the same time at the same altitude. They both died. Now are you going to tell me that a P-40B is much superior than a P-51D and P-38L combined? Also have you ever killed someone in a better airplane than the one you were in?

[moot]

Yeah I clearly am Batfink.  
The spit16 is a noob plane if there ever was one.  End of story.


I said 2-4 kills meaning I was furballing on my own next to an enemy base, and inside a 4:1 could keep lines to killshots on 2 and a couple of times 4 separate bandits.  That means I could (and did) commit to one target and break off for a killshot on another and then go back to the one target without losing the dominant position. In a slow turning fight.  I went down with 7 kills.  So here I am, saying it's a UFO.  That's not enough?  I can do 10 kills every sortie.  I could probably manage over 10, which says a lot when it's got such a small fuel tank. 13 is the average number for a good streak on 1 fuel load in the 152.  The 16 does the same in half the time.

A few month ago I took a P-40 for a ride. I encountered a P-38L and a P-51D at the same time at the same altitude. They both died.

One instance. Not a day in day out consistency like the spit16.

[MachFly]

I said 2-4 kills meaning I was furballing on my own next to an enemy base, and inside a 4:1 could keep lines to killshots on 2 and a couple of times 4 separate bandits.  That means I could (and did) commit to one target and break off for a killshot on another and then go back to the one target without losing the dominant position.  I went down with 7 kills.  So here I am, saying it's a UFO.  That's not enough?  I can do 10 kills every sortie. One instance. Not a day in day out consistency like the spit16.

Do it, land, show me.

[moot]

LOL

[MachFly]

LOL

is there a problem?
I thought it was easy for you to land 10 kills in spit 16 in any sorti. Do it a few time, take some screen shots or videos. Post it here.

[Die Hard]

Why do people care what other people fly?

[stodd]

The spit16 is a noob plane if there ever was one.  End of story.

After skimming threw 11 pages, this sentence is just about the only thing that was needed.

[MachFly]

So stodd can you answer the question in the 1st post

[mechanic]

is there a problem?
I thought it was easy for you to land 10 kills in spit 16 in any sorti. Do it a few time, take some screen shots or videos. Post it here.

I know moot could easily land 50 killls in a spit16 if he put his mind to it.
Machfly, what do you want from this thread? Nobody is going to over congratulate a spit16 pilot simply because it is the easiest plane in the game to fly. Nobody can tell you what to fly or what to think of a specific aircraft. Nobody who posted here is going to change their mind. Either accept the answers or admit you just want to keep the argument going?

[MachFly]

Nobody is going to over congratulate a spit16 pilot simply because it is the easiest plane in the game to fly. Nobody can tell you what to fly or what to think of a specific aircraft. Nobody who posted here is going to change their mind. Either accept the answers or admit you just want to keep the argument going?

I don't want to fly spit 16, my problem is that the actual aircraft (not the people who fly it) does not get any respect here.

[mechanic]

Respect it yourself, that is all that matters.

[stickpig]

The ironic part is that when it was rumored we were getting a cliped wing Spitfire,everyone was so gung Ho for it. Now look at the mess

[bj229r]

This Isn't "real life". 

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