Do you feel as though you learn more from fighting players of more experience or fighting players of equal skill ?
Apologies If I may seem stupid to post this but I find it an interesting Topic.
Discuss.
Though I haven't played in a while, I always felt that the best way to learn was to fight someone whos better than you, without being so much better that he just mops the floor with you. Even better is when you record sorties, and debrief with your opponent.
But if you can't get that debrief, its still better than fighting those of equal skill, IMO. Why? Because its pushing your skills further, and you can still learn what you're doing wrong on your own, it will just take longer.
Fighting with others of equal skill doesn't do much to improve your flying. About the best you're likely to do is keep your skills sharp, and smooth out some of the new tricks you've learned.
As for SA, take out just about any fighter that doesn't pwn most of the other aircraft, and fly to the closest furball.