I agree with Perv. Every player who starts dueling and starts getting good at it goes through a period when all they want to do is win fights. The player who win as much as possible are usualy those who have got to the top and only been there for a year or less. Once you reach a level where constantly winning fights is not satisfying anymore you start to want to enjoy fights. Make the fight last as long as possible. Take risks, fly erratic, hold back on that killshot and see if you can go a step further. This often leads to a dramatic decrease in wins, but a vast increase in enjoyment, win or lose. This is a state of mind that usualy only occcurs after a number of years at the top of the DA foodchain.
Very good point and AGREED
Easy-Win fights IMO are hollow, but the option to extend is so NOT at YOUR discretion if your sloppy, clue-less, or like me - Lost lol.
Film has been my friend, first day here i tumbled with FLS... well, IMO more like i offered myself up to FLS, neatly wrapped and tagged with a pretty bow lol. Everywhere else I've flown I've been masterful at evasion and reversal. Fair understanding of maneuvering and geometry from that experience helps me stay in the saddle or fight for the angle, but I can't shake 6 at all. I've pinned it down to a SA issue, more specifically, my orientation relative to my enemy. I've been able to set up situations that have SO MUCH potential to reverse and that's from looking at the film. Great e and general setup several times, but then loosing visual, ESPECIALLY below me and i'd have to say 99% of the time that's it. I either re-saddle myself for the enemy, or gift-wrap clean 6 shots from pulling out the wrong way. If I loose sight, it takes FAR FAR longer than It should to regain contact. I've lost people in window frames, but mostly it's anything under me and I loose it so bad that by the time i see them i'm out of position if i even see them at all. It's also something I'm doing, it's way too consistent that I nearly ALWAYS orienting myself in ways where theres just no way for me to capitalize unless they mess up. I'm seeing it on film, but not catching that self-killing movement when it happens. Probably from struggling to cope with that blind spot my radar always took care of for me before. It's embarrassing to admit the solution is really as simple as rolling 180 at one specific moment. I just miss that moment about as consistent as the sun rises during the actually fight. I'm using a TM Afterburner, it has a separate throttle with a self-centering paddle for rudder (I hate z-twist passionately) total 8 buttons + 8way hat. One button is "look up" which used with the hat gives me in total all 8 level, 8 up angle, and vertical while hands on. I'll probably see if theres a way to stop the snap-to-front to see if that helps ease the feeling i'm fighting to hold view back. Hopefully that will resolve the distraction to allow me to try to get that roll to view at the right time. ^.^ I'm evasion-defense minded by nature, so my personal priority 1 is developing consistency in resolving on-my-6, opposite my consistant fail-rate lol. Not necessarily a kill result, at this time i'd be happy with just about any results that DON'T end in chute ride and new plane lol.
