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Offline RoGenT

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Tale From A Pig
« on: April 01, 2011, 06:37:13 PM »
I know lots of people don’t care for reading long stories so I’ll keep this short. Because there are about 24 pictures, I might have to make several posts. This was so fun, I wanted to share it with everyone. I was defending A78 pretty much by myself. I engaged a Sea fire and got him. When I got back to my base, to high bad guys came in. 109K4 and Spit8. Both were trying to pick me in pass after pass after pass, and have pretty decent tactics, so I was on my toes the entire time. Eventually a friendly in a Zeke did his best to help out but in the end, poor dude died several times before finally giving up. During one engagement, the 109 went off somewhere so I was able to engage the Spit8 as well as I could; he kept his E up very well. During the last few minutes of the fight, I had very low fuel so had to start back towards my base while dodging the baddies. I did eventually make it back safely, but the whole sortie was about 30 minutes; the main fight was about 15 minutes long. The Spit finally crashed before I towered so was able to claim him as my second. Being in the POTW isn’t easy lol. Anyway, thank you for reading this and checking out the story and pictures.  

Sea fire coming in for a HO shot: Failed


Caught him at slowest part of in climb


End of the Seafire


Spit8 and 109K4, coming in high!


One of the many passes from the Spit8


Quick throttle cut and rudder = failed pick!


Snapshot at 109: No hits. Spit8 was coming down fast from the left


Follow up shot from previous picture


Another snap roll, another failed pick #2


Failed pick #3


Failed 109 pick


109 was out of icon range, took advantage and scored some hits on Spit while trying to keep from stalling out- Non-fatal hits (tough plane that Spit)


After I stalled, he came down on me; this might be the end…..


Pick fail!!!
« Last Edit: April 01, 2011, 07:13:59 PM by RoGenT »
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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2011, 07:04:45 PM »
(continued)


Turn N’ Burn Baby!! (109 is back, trying to sneak in for pick)


Trying to get back to base before my engine quits…


Made the 109 overshoot; pick fail #3 (Spit broke off due to ack)


109 is determined to pick me; Fail attempt #4. Was trying to ditch but out of habit, kicked my gear out just after he went by me.


DUH!!!!



WOO HOO!!! – Another happy pig landing, hopefully SAPP approved too.  :aok


« Last Edit: April 01, 2011, 07:11:02 PM by RoGenT »
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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2011, 08:34:46 PM »
the only thing I got out of this, is someone don't know what a "pick" is

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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2011, 08:56:12 PM »
the only thing I got out of this, is someone don't know what a "pick" is


I know it's hard to tell from the screen shots but if I took one for every single attempted pick they did (they usually attacked at same time or when I was shooting at the other) then it would be been much clear on your doubt of my judgment, however, I didn't feel like doing that nor did I want to put caption "avoid #1, #2, etc, because it would have been very long and boring. I posted the these because I had fun in the 2v1 and thought I would share some of it with everyone. I know what a pick is though  :)
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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2011, 09:36:55 PM »

I know it's hard to tell from the screen shots but if I took one for every single attempted pick they did (they usually attacked at same time or when I was shooting at the other) then it would be been much clear on your doubt of my judgment, however, I didn't feel like doing that nor did I want to put caption "avoid #1, #2, etc, because it would have been very long and boring. I posted the these because I had fun in the 2v1 and thought I would share some of it with everyone. I know what a pick is though  :)

you just use the word "pick" so much....and
i don't see one pick...it does look like it was fun :aok

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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2011, 09:43:44 PM »
Nice landing!  :rofl
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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2011, 09:50:37 PM »
great story!  :salute
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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2011, 11:41:08 AM »
+1
Do you have film available?

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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2011, 01:06:57 PM »
+1
Do you have film available?

Of course  :)   I am just not sure how to post it, or any on youtube either though unfortunely.
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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2011, 02:51:11 AM »
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I am just not sure how to post it.
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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2011, 07:12:39 AM »
Was i the only one who was lazy enough to just look at the pictures??
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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2011, 04:13:46 PM »
I would suggest .JPG for better colors. Those GIFs are limited to 256 colors and the dithering looks awful and the colors all muted and compressed. .JPGs are better even with lower quality settings. They might lose some sharpness if you want to save disc space but overall are more enjoyable to view.

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Re: Tale From A Pig
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2011, 07:23:36 PM »


testing out .JPG

The link thing says 'gif' still (which I am using photobucket) even though I replaced the file as .jpg

Am I doing something wrong here?  :headscratch: 
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