Tac, I know what you mean.
Those wicked good Japanese pilots we see in MA usually always start their attack with that maneuver. I mean, no 'setting up', no 'positioning' stuff other planes might need.. they come from a large alt advantage(icons show usually like more than 4000 yards up), just aim for you and dive down.
They know N1K2-J is not particularly a fast plane, so they always start up with fairly large amount of alt advantage and drop as fast as they can. I mean the speed they come at is huge.. I'm doing a shallow dive to gain E, look at speedometer and it says like 350~400mph.. look back and see distance close in like a blasted stop watch.
And I try a break turn, enough to pull outta way, good angle, but not too hard so i can save as much E as I can.. U look back, see them just whizz by like lightning.. at like more than 50 degrees angle(I can see the plane's back as it goes down)...
If this was some other plane, it definately looks like the guy made a big mistake, he came in too steeply too fast, just passed by me, and by the time he recovers and makes his way back up from all the way down, all that mighty alt E is failry used up...
But You make a turn, he passes by, u look under and he just seems to pull up and see the distance close in at lead turn angle once more, from underneath this time. He had lotsa speed, so this is fairly simple and reasonable, yes.
But shouldn't he start zooming back up to your tail at like from d3.0 or something?
You look down under, and see him pass down, he seems to recover not more than d2.0 under you and he climbs back up, distances again, closing like a stop watch.
You gape in dismay as the distance flies away, he starts shooting from 600 yards, and tracks your move with a upward zooming lead turn, which has been commenced right after pulling off a high speed dive, altering pitch from like 130 dgrees from the dive status.
I'd understand if this was a 109-ish high speed dive with low angles where drops under your low 6, and zooms back up you from under.... but this??
