You might call it that. I normally think of stick stirring as barrel rolling while maintaining altitude - here I was just rolling out of phase with the Yak.
Let me just pontificate a bit on the HO. Those who consider it somehow "less than" should consider that maybe, just maybe, there's something to be learned from ho'ing.
Consider Robert Shaw - he devotes a good deal of his book on air combat (the near-bible, for those unwashed enough to be unfamiliar) to the HO, how to combat it, and how best to deal with it.
I just don't understand this disqualification that many pilots - far better ones than novice I - reserve for an entirely legitimate learning opportunity. It was part of RL, it's part of the game, there are methods built around it. It's here, it's queer, get used to it.
Then again, maybe it's something like two chimps in a gym with revolvers and a bottle of tequila.
You sound like you're not as good as you try to talk.....Here are some credible reasons to HO in AH:
some HO because it's a last ditch effort to kill the la7 that's going for the goon...
some HO because they are fighting 1 vs 4 and it's a last ditch effort to just stay alive...
some HO because it is the best shot on a set of bombers....
Here are some coward reasons and responses to HO:
...he was flying right at me.....
...they did it in WWII...
...when I HO and win, it helps my score....
...if you don't like it, go to the DA......
first of all, if you are a 'win the war at all cost' type of fella...nothing I say is going to make sense....but if you are a fighter type....then listen up...
a majority of the times people go for HO's on me, I simply set up my merge around their HO and kill them easily(if they stay and fight)....most just run, after HOing.....Many, many times in game, I see folks HO a 4 vs 1 because they want the kill that bad...lame really...who wants kills they don't fight for, unless they are some nancy boy herbert milktoast scoreboy cheesecake type? There is no reason to go around HOing people that are dogfighting...if you want to fight, learn how, HOing is just not a smart move 1 vs 1...and it wastes time, if you get something damaged..because then you have to rtb, or bail out and start the flight back to the fight...it just doesn't make sense to HO, instead of learning how to increase your acm skills...the skills will give you much more fun than a 50-50 roll of the dice HO...just sayin....