You did much better than I did my first time. Well done.
Tell me how ya felt when you flew it please. Not how the plane felt, how you felt.
Well, as soon the gear had gone up I put in my head that there was no turning back. The points would be lost if I wasn't careful. All the hard work. I took it nice and easy and let the bird do what she wanted to do. As soon as I had enough speed I leveled off and turned nose onto my target. I was a little low, maybe less than 2000 feet. I put it into autoclimb and flew to target. Was at 15-17k the whole time I was over target, and just flew sideways, right wind towards the ground, and watched what was below me. You may commonly find me doing this in my 109F, observing the battle and watching teammates. The teammate in the most trouble is the one I rush to, to help him out.
I just sat up there until a pony who was maybe 3k below me, and then he climbed to my height and wanted to claim a kill. I didn't let him. I went fast on him, nearly 400, lobbing cannon rounds everywhere around him but saw no hits. I came back onto him half a minute later from his 5 o clock, and nearly collided, and also sprayed cannon rounds everywhere, but no hits. At that point I realized I had gotten careless and looked at my fuel gauge and E6B. I din't have enough fuel to full throttle to the base I took off from.
At this point I felt so screwed and so dumb that I wanted to bang a clock on my head. But, I saw there was nearby base I could creep to, and land at. I began the flight home with enough fuel to make it. The pony tried to follow me but he ate dust. Or contrails, considering we are in the air. I flew home, and got REALLL nervous during landing. 3 times I came
this close to face planting my perks. I kept my cool, killed my engines early, glided in flaps out, and was able to put her down.
It was a great flight even though it was the riskiest thing I've done in AH. I know for sure I'll do it again. Overall, it was a thrill.
, Whiskey2
