First, thanks for getting the SpitXIV off of my D9's six in the Bulge. Clearing me led directly to the destruction of 3 P-51s a little later.
i find that pulling out a reversal or overshoot on a guy that is 75mph faster is much easier for me than trying to reverse a guy that has position and is very close to my energy state ...
Your darn tootin' it is. That is why again duelling is such good practice. Like I say, the margins are narrower.
Though if he's any good he's going to vertical against every reversal and at some point your ability to really *handle* the plane will be put to the test. Really if he's as good as you and in a similar performing aircraft with advantage, you die 90% of the time, but that's a big "if".
not being the best plane handler and not being able to handle your plane well are two different things.
They are really not. If someone can beat you in a given plane "duelling", then 99% of the time they can rape the furball and land pelts better as well, if they want.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nxyioiylykz/190A5survival.ahfLook here, took up the 190A5 for abit last night in the MA. Now at first me and my wingman are flying "smart", with all the alt you could ask for on the many bandits. Honestly, anyone with a pulse could have done the first two shoot downs. But how quickly things can change...all of a sudden there is a faster, more maneuverable fighter barreling down on my tail. With a very good pilot in it. Running is not an option. I could have flown alot better here. I did not know who the pilot was...I didn't expect such an aggressive dump of speed and re-attack after the initial overshoot...I might have made more hay after the vertical overshoot if I dumped speed and gone for angles more aggressively. Though I don't put my chances against Lilmak in that matchup as anything but grim. I credit the fact that I survived at all long enough to be saved by my wingman to spending a Friday evening doing several duels in the A-5 myself, against a good stick, with us both flying the things slower than most 190 pilots think is possible. Moment later another faster, more maneuverable fighter comes in. Again, running is off the table. I get very aggressive with the P-51, confident I stand a good chance even in a technically inferior fighter because I will fly it to the "edge" if needed. Likewise, if that SpitXIV in the Bulge Snapshot had been closer to me, I believe I would have had a good chance of surviving long enough for you to pick him off me, or possibly even reversed him if he got particularly stupid. Aggression. Precise gunnery and plane handling. Wriggling out of situations where by all rights you should be dead meat. That is the practical benefit of so-called "artificial" duelling in similar aircraft Co-E.
