But Bustr said....
I flew for the first time this month. Took off in the old 38G from a field getting attacked. Got into a fight with a BnZ 47M. Best I could do was hug the deck and hope he augered. Just about pulled it off too. Bled his E down until I finally was able to reverse and get a shot from about 600 out as he was still fast. All kinds of parts came off. He didn't go down, but didn't come back down either. Despite my rust I could still work the 38G. I ended up getting picked right after that but the first fight was worth it.
Took off again from a nearby field as they took the one I was at initially. Headed towards the dar bar. Found 2 sets of Lancs above me with a single Tony escorting. Down he came. The Lancs droned on so he was doing his job. Again we got mixed in and I was lucky enough after about 3 minutes of bending it to work in behind him and shoot him down. I said to Soulyss later that I should probably shut down for the month as I'd had my one really great fight.
But he and I upped and wandered towards a large dar bar. Again we got mixed in with a number of baduns. Pleasantly surprised to see they wanted to fight outside of one 38L who keep HOing and running. He died a number of times as that really didn't work for him. In the end both Soulyss and I ended up in the water, he from a pilot wound and me from out of fuel. But we'd downed a few birds and the fights had been agreeably fun from both sides.
Not going to quit playing that way just cause I might have a couple of frustrating nights