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Offline waystin2

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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #30 on: June 25, 2010, 09:38:07 AM »
C.202 in the LW's.  I love that bird, but I always up it at the wrong time.  Like when there is 10 red iconed fighters with nothing better to do than engage the only 40 ENY bird in sight.   :eek:
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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #31 on: June 25, 2010, 10:22:56 AM »
Geez, this is a question that requires a pie chart and several graphs for sure.

My bad luck bird is probably the Spixteen oddly enough.  I can kill and live way better in pretty well any Spit than I do in the XVI in a furball.  Even the Spit I.  I don't know why, I just seem to wind up in constant accelerated stalls in the thing and get dead.

My bad luck enemy bird is hands down the A6Ms.  They should be virtually no threat when you fly the big, heavy fast stuff like P47s, F4Us, C205, and so forth.  As long as I don't blow my E in their vicinity I should be safe from them, right?  However it seems almost without fail that I will get into a situation where I have to get a little slower than I'd like for whatever reason.  Then there seems to be a Zeke specific feature in the game that puts a big orange flashing circle around my plane saying 'WILEY BLEW HIS E, COME IN AND KILL HIM NOW IN HIS LOW SLOW P47!'

I then get out-accelerated and die.

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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #32 on: June 25, 2010, 05:56:07 PM »
C202/205 (need to log a few more hours in these), F4U's (dunno why), Spits (too twitchy). 
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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #33 on: June 25, 2010, 06:00:46 PM »
My bad luck bird is probably the Spixteen oddly enough.  I can kill and live way better in pretty well any Spit than I do in the XVI in a furball.  Even the Spit I.  I don't know why, I just seem to wind up in constant accelerated stalls in the thing and get dead.

phew! I was beginning to think I was the only one. still cant work out why though :headscratch:
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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #34 on: June 25, 2010, 06:08:24 PM »
109s, any of them.
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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #35 on: June 25, 2010, 06:10:08 PM »
109ote author=flight17 link=topic=291552.msg3709954#msg3709954 date=1277448648]
yup, nothing like having a single bullet take off your entire tail section.
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I've hit 47's with taters and they fly off just fine. But I have no troubles with those goliaths...

I can not for the life of me fly the F4U. Completely incompatible with 109 habits I guess...

As for planes I have bad luck against...spit 16s. Always the spit 16. She climbs with me, she dives wih me, she turns with me, and Most pilots seem to have the bending bullet down, judgeing by all the oil leaks I get from spits on my dead 6... :rolleyes:

Anybody know how to shake these bastiges?
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Offline 321BAR

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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #36 on: June 25, 2010, 07:32:49 PM »
those dang brewbrews... Whenever i fly my zero i ALWAYS run into one that is above me or on my six... :furious
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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #37 on: June 25, 2010, 07:43:34 PM »
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yup, nothing like having a single bullet take off your entire tail section.


I've hit 47's with taters and they fly off just fine. But I have no troubles with those goliaths...

I can not for the life of me fly the F4U. Completely incompatible with 109 habits I guess...

As for planes I have bad luck against...spit 16s. Always the spit 16. She climbs with me, she dives wih me, she turns with me, and Most pilots seem to have the bending bullet down, judgeing by all the oil leaks I get from spits on my dead 6... :rolleyes:

Anybody know how to shake these bastiges?


you can out accelerate them in a K-4  :p
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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #38 on: June 25, 2010, 07:46:56 PM »
If we are in a Co-e situation, and he is 400 off my tail, how do you propose I slow down rapidly with out taking a poorly aimed hail of 20mm's to mmy airframe?
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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #39 on: June 25, 2010, 07:56:13 PM »
I wouldn't be able to say what my bad luck plane is but I know that the worst thing I can do is up with ord for what was a capped field or to kill tanks with no aircover because without fail I will be bounced half way there every single time :cry

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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #40 on: June 25, 2010, 08:53:25 PM »
Of all the planes in the game. I do the least well in a Tempest of all things
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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #41 on: June 25, 2010, 11:15:28 PM »
F4U-1D for some wierd reason, its supposed to be a GREAT plane, but not in may hands.

Do you fly it the same way as the F4F?

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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #42 on: June 26, 2010, 09:46:23 AM »
All of them  :D


If we are in a Co-e situation, and he is 400 off my tail, how do you propose I slow down rapidly with out taking a poorly aimed hail of 20mm's to mmy airframe?

very true
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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #43 on: June 26, 2010, 05:48:52 PM »
190's I hate to fly them  and I hate to fight them wing twitching turds.

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Re: do you have a bad luck plane?
« Reply #44 on: June 27, 2010, 11:20:25 AM »
 For me its the F4U's any of them . I love the plane but just cant fly it well .
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