Why am I not an awesome pilot yet?

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I could tell ya why...but you wont listen....oh well......

[Iraqvet]

Why?......Because too much you your time is spent trolling 200ch and thus your SA is lost when you are too busy typing nonsense. 

[Midway]

Why?......Because too much you your time is spent trolling 200ch and thus your SA is lost when you are too busy typing nonsense.  

It's much more than ch 200.  With the help of some top gunners landing 10 victories in a Spitfire requiring my ch 200 and BBS silence for 3 days at a time, per previous agreement, as well as HTC's 8 day mute a couple of times, I do notice a slight improvemt in my flying, but nowhere near the awesomeness of regularly landing 8+ victory sorties.

I think the secret is in all of the items listed in my original post and I intend to find out over the next several tours.

However, there is no denying...
Ch 200 crack is bad, real bad.

There is value though to 200, on occasion.  Kind of like an occasional glass of wine is reported to improve health, but a gallon a day, just the opposite.  

[Nathan60]

11 pages really? I leave you guys alone a couple days and come back to this?

[katanaso]

With so much time invested in this game over the past 18+ months, how and why are you not better yet?  I'd wager that you have more time in game than anybody else over the course of several years.

Perhaps you've just hit a plateau, and you're not going to attain the skill levels of those you admire so much.  Not every athlete goes pro...

It also doesn't help that you're quite unfamiliar with how the majority of the planeset handles.  A lot of fighting involves knowing what the other guy can't do, or at least has trouble doing.  You're mainly in a Spit 8, which allows so much forgiveness, that you can get away with less than optimal ACM and still get kills.

You really want to get better?  Buy a book on ACM and learn some basic stuff.  Low and high yo-yo's instead of flat turns.  Lead turns into a merge instead of trying for HO or front quarter shots, giving up angles.  The Spit 8 allows you to do the flat turns and HOs and get away with it.  Other planes aren't such a crutch.

I'll say the most improved thing I've seen in your time is that you stopped flying with the throttle at 100%. 

[Midway]

With so much time invested in this game over the past 18+ months, how and why are you not better yet?  I'd wager that you have more time in game than anybody else over the course of several years.

Perhaps you've just hit a plateau, and you're not going to attain the skill levels of those you admire so much.  Not every athlete goes pro...

It also doesn't help that you're quite unfamiliar with how the majority of the planeset handles.  A lot of fighting involves knowing what the other guy can't do, or at least has trouble doing.  You're mainly in a Spit 8, which allows so much forgiveness, that you can get away with less than optimal ACM and still get kills.

You really want to get better?  Buy a book on ACM and learn some basic stuff.  Low and high yo-yo's instead of flat turns.  Lead turns into a merge instead of trying for HO or front quarter shots, giving up angles.  The Spit 8 allows you to do the flat turns and HOs and get away with it.  Other planes aren't such a crutch.

I'll say the most improved thing I've seen in your time is that you stopped flying with the throttle at 100%. 

All very true and all of your helpful ideas, without exception, are already in progress.   

[Nathan60]

All very true and all of your helpful ideas, without exception, are already in progress.   

So your getting out of the spit 8?

[Midway]

So your getting out of the spit 8?

Only on occasion, to learn a bit about other aeroplanes.  Getting fully out of the Spitfire was not in his post and I intend to stay in it mostly, for now -- until I solve many of the problems listed in my original post.

[katanaso]

Only on occasion, to learn a bit about other aeroplanes.  Getting fully out of the Spitfire was not in his post and I intend to stay in it mostly, for now -- until I solve many of the problems listed in my original post.

I think the Spit is an awesome plane.  Heck, it would be one of the planes I'd own if I ever had the money to do so.  There are a lot of really good players who enjoy the Spit as well.  They could easily move into something else, but it's an enjoyable plane to fly in the game.

One thing that a lot of folks have often overlooked throughout the years is that real ACMs do work.  Sure, there's the cartoon-y stuff that we get to do because we have no real fear of getting hurt or dying, but learning how to gain angles through ACMs and not just yank-and-bank is what makes people better and tougher opponents.

[Midway]

How cool is it that a learning pilot can ask a sincere question, offer a hypothesis, and get dozens of sincere answers from a community of skilled on the field real and virtual pilots?  Very cool!

All you have to do is ask and learn to ignore the various arrows, rocks, insults, put downs, and beer cans thrown at you from the nosebleed section.  Ducking, deflecting, and returning said items are important to not get hit though.  Not too difficult to do.  

There are ponies to be found.  

  AH community.

[ebfd11]

where is Skuzzy with the thread lock.

[guncrasher]

It's much more than ch 200.  With the help of some top gunners landing 10 victories in a Spitfire requiring my ch 200 and BBS silence for 3 days at a time, per previous agreement, as well as HTC's 8 day mute a couple of times, I do notice a slight improvemt in my flying, but nowhere near the awesomeness of regularly landing 8+ victory sorties.

I think the secret is in all of the items listed in my original post and I intend to find out over the next several tours.

However, there is no denying...
Ch 200 crack is bad, real bad.

There is value though to 200, on occasion.  Kind of like an occasional glass of wine is reported to improve health, but a gallon a day, just the opposite.  

it's not your flying, but your attitude.  you fly to annoy others instead of to kill.  have flown many times against you and as soon as you take off you go straight  to fight instead of just pulling away and perhaps get a little altitude.  I remember many times when you got killed  4 or 5 times in a row because you kept on insisting on climbing to 7 or 8k just shooting at higher planes trying to score some hit points.  you became easy kill at that point.  if you were to tulips your situation every time instead of just trying to shoot at something then perhaps it would make you a better pilot.  but not like you are gonna change anyway. 

btw if it was up to me I would still fly the spit8.  there's no dweeb planes, only dorks who think they are so good they dont think they should be killed by "lesser" planes.


semp

[RTHolmes]

the key to regularly landing big numbers in spits like your heros is to train and fly with wingmen. we dont get paid to fly AH so wingmen are people you get on with and dont mind spending time flying with, usually squaddies.

I suppose there might be someone out there amongst the 1000s of AH players that can tolerate your incessant spamming, trolling, stalking and incedibly irritating attitude. If you can find one of them you stand a chance. I wont be putting any money on it though.

[Midway]

the key to regularly landing big numbers in spits like your heros is to train and fly with wingmen. we dont get paid to fly AH so wingmen are people you get on with and dont mind spending time flying with, usually squaddies.

I suppose there might be someone out there amongst the 1000s of AH players that can tolerate your incessant spamming, trolling, stalking and incedibly irritating attitude. If you can find one of them you stand a chance. I wont be putting any money on it though.

Relying on a wingman is, I think, an easier way out.  I intend to do this on my own with the occasional help from nearby friendlies.   Others have, I intend to figure it out. Thank you though.   

[Midway]

it's not your flying, but your attitude.  you fly to annoy others instead of to kill.  have flown many times against you and as soon as you take off you go straight  to fight instead of just pulling away and perhaps get a little altitude.  I remember many times when you got killed  4 or 5 times in a row because you kept on insisting on climbing to 7 or 8k just shooting at higher planes trying to score some hit points.  you became easy kill at that point.  if you were to tulips your situation every time instead of just trying to shoot at something then perhaps it would make you a better pilot.  but not like you are gonna change anyway.  

btw if it was up to me I would still fly the spit8.  there's no dweeb planes, only dorks who think they are so good they dont think they should be killed by "lesser" planes.


semp

Actually this part I have already learned: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,335729.msg4414481.html#msg4414481

but need to practice more.