Depending on the situation Ho is a survival tool, ever fly at 10k and get jumped by a flight of 20k P51s? Yep climb and Ho away, they tend to ignore you after you get the first two, or continue to make 10k dives to pick you, either way I just turn into and HO.
In a normal fight on the deck - more then often I simply ignore Hoing or Ho'ers, simply because I am probably going to die anyway trying to turn fight some buffalo, or get lead to Wirblwinds.