Spitfires: The main reason people dont fly them

[comet61]

I must be the only player in AH that can't fly a spit

Naw...there are a few of us here. I just don't like the spit. I like killin' em. Granted, they kill me alot, but I don't care.  I have had the great pleasure in knocking a few out of the sky with my Ki-84. 

[grizz441]

Two planes that you only die in if you want to.

Care to elaborate?  I'd really like to hear this. 

While we're at it, lets just go ahead and make this a British/American pissing match.  Yall take so much offense to people's distaste for spitfires.  For the record, I hate P51Ds and Spitfires equally.  I must be a neo Nazi or something since I love german rides.   

[CountD90]

  I must be a neo Nazi or something since I love german rides.  

i would really hate for this to be true seeing i only fly german planes, minus the F4U1D off a CV.

[mechanic]

Then I must be a neo nazi also, as I just said the K4 is better than any spitfire in the game.
 

[Steve]

Care to elaborate?  I'd really like to hear this. 

  For the record, I hate P51Ds

 

[Messiah]

What a clever thread designed to bash LW ridez

[jerkins]

Spits are a terrific plane, I quite like the spit IX.  

K4 is also a great plane, and its quite easy to die in if you fly like me.  If you bnz with it, you will live, its fast and can out run darn near everything.  K4 IMO is one of the trickiest birds to master, but when it is mastered, its hard to beat.  

Who am I kidding, I like to fly all the planes, they're all so much fun.  Why would anyone stick to just a select few?

[TonyJoey]

Spit IX> insert any plane here 

[mechanic]

What a clever thread designed to bash LW ridez

[snip]... as I just said the K4 is better than any spitfire in the game.

 

[Messiah]

 

 

[froger]

The main reason people won't fly a spitfire is because then you have no excuse for why you died.  There is an element of wanting 'more challenge' in there, obviously. There is also the obvious fact that not everyone likes the look of the spitfire (filthy heathens).
 Both these facts fall to the number one fact. It's pretty much just as likely that you will die in most of the spitfires, as say a P40E. If you are marked to be slaughtered in the MA, the plane does not matter much unless you can run faster than everything else. Most spitfires cannot.
 I honestly believe it is mostly that when people fly a spitfire and die quickly, they find themself lacking in any credible excuse.

 

if your good....and lucky you can fly and survive in most any plane in the game 

spit 16 should be perked i think <----------its a killa


froger

[moot]

Says the man who flies with quite a few exclusive 109K4 and 152 fans. Two planes that you only die in if you want to.

Troll

[palef]

<insert Benny Hill music>

I got thrown out of the Hollybrook cemetery for running around "singing" that tune, once I'd found his grave. I blame cheap cider.

[scot12b]

[Boozeman]

Here some random reasons not to fly spits:

- Spits are boring.
- Spits are arcade.
- Spits are crutches.
- Spits are way too common.
- Spits are for dweebs.
- Spits won't make you a better person.

To be fair though, the Spit 1 is the exception of the rule.