ok.....i'm watching the film for the 2nd time right now.
k, low on coffee still so I ll try to remember lol
what i noticed in the fight with you vs the 109 was something he seemed to have in common with me. he made his merge turn too soon? and after that, it looked like you had him locked up, just waiting for him to give ya a shot.
Remember I was telling you to be more aggressive and go for angles first. The 109 was not sure what he wanted to do I think. He was in a turning plane but he tried to play the e game vs a 38, and then switch it to turning. Yes, he started his turn too early - good if you have more e and trying to rope - bad in that case. You have to remember that even if you are faster by 50mph, 50 cals will catch you. Use your e to get a better angle.
now i'm at our first fight after the 109. on that one, i flew right by ya, and then went up. you weren't even looking as i went by, but rather you seemed to be setting up to turn away from me? i see the end result, but i'm confused as to why? this is about 9:48 in btw. i see that you were able to get right up on my 6, but would that have still happened had i pulled harder, into you?
I do that when I am slow and need to get some speed. Make it look like I am trying for a reversal but go straight. That gives me some distance to get some speed up and slows you down. You can also do that if have speed and try to turn around right as the bad guy is looping. You catch him very slow and most of the time you will force the turning.
Would it happen if you pulled harder? I can't tell, I am at work and don't have the film. However, I should have lost all those fights so there has to be some mistake you made. Go back to the being aggressive. You allowed me to get my speed up and reduce yours. Had you kept pushing I would have to keep turning and would end up too slow to get out of the way.
now up at 13:16, i can see from your side i made my merge turn waaayyy too soon. from my side, i thought i was just passin ya as i pulled up and to the left. but now, again, i'm confused. i felt i was bordering on pulling too hard when i did that, but you managed to turn inside me, and once that happened, it was only a matter of time till i made a mistake. i know the early turn was the main mistake, and i think that little stall/spin at 13:38 was the final mistake in that fight.
That is the key. You turned too early. I don't know if you can see in the film but right before the merge I hit the breaks. So, now I have position and can turn tighter. Your only hope after the merge would have been to go in rolling scissors where you eventually get the advantage since you had more e (assuming no mistakes). Then again, it was a gamble on my part because if the e differential was too big you would have every advantage.
From my experience, it is good to know your plane and what you can do with it, but the difference in winning these fights is taking advantage of peoples mistakes. I should have lost most of those, especially the one vs the zero, but some one always makes a mistake. Help them do that. Make them think you are fast when you are slow, slow when fast, think they can get a shot, think you are flat turning a 38 and then pull an imel after the second turn, etc and don't give them any time to think. Once in a fight most will make mistakes. Look at the fights closely and you will see I screwed up big time vs the 109 and you but you guys gave me too mach time to recover.
Ohhh, and as Bighorn would tell me after killing me (angles first, e second)
