Not to be rude, but Latrobe is virtually famous for his skill, especially in 109's. He's easily top 10 AH pilots overall. Again, not to be rude, but who the hell are you?
He is famous for his skill, part of which includes gunnery. I've seen his films. With his gunnery skills his moves mean something. Without it, all would be for naught. As it often has been for me when many bandits were in the air.
If Skyyrr gets "unfairly" targeted... I'm kind of okay with it.
And this is a rather abominable outlook on justice. If there are set rules (rule of law) that are agreed upon, then one can objectively evaluate whether a person is innocent or guilty of violating them. If it is the nebulous horsedung that some people label the "rules" of the MA, then a hated person (or group) will always be held guilty of violating them, while the offenses of more favored individuals will be glossed over. This is more or less what is happening here, as far as I can tell.
I would disagree. Ideally you come down such that they are showing you their top/bottom at around D-600. This prevents people like you and Skyyrr and Bozon from wildly spraying fire as I pump lead into your hopefully out-fought carcass.
We will have to agree to disagree here. Waiting till you can see them go nose down may present them the opportunity to regain some maneuver potential and do some wild evasive. Snap it into a spin if nothing else. And there is not one chance in 50 of a guy who is hanging there out of airspeed hitting you when he fires anyway, so it's a worthy risk for a near certain target.
EDIT:
Hitech himself has listed the kind of shots you get when roping as a reason that head-ons cannot be turned off, ala Air Warrior.I'd say you're scissors aren't working real great if they only got you a head-on.
It wasn't a head-on, I was essentially shooting at his planform, from in front of the 3/9 line at close range. He did not point guns at me. His argument was that he COULD have pointed guns at me, if he had pulled harder. In flight, there is no way for me to know what he COULD potentially do, only that from what happened on my screen it appeared I had cut inside his turn. Good guy generally, we didn't have an issue, but I think his logic was a bit murky on that and many players use such similar murky logic.
Speaking of which, how is he reasonably supposed to avoid you? If it's like I'm picturing your two flight paths, it would come up rather abruptly, where there's not much room to maneuver.
When it looks like a guy is going to be able to get guns on me in a situation like this, I show them my wingtip to make a narrow target and do a jink. If they miss and don't react quickly, this may give me shot position on the next turn of the scissors. If they hit, I don't make the argument "I could have put my nose on you too!!!", even if in reality I could have.
Also your dilemma is why I try not to ho. Rather than assume everyone is going to Ho, I've decided it's irrelevant; I'm good enough I don't have to.
I assume everyone may HO. Therefore I rarely get hit by HOs, and never complain about them when my ACM skill fails to let me avoid the HO.
So you've moved from flying for fights to flying to have a good K/D 
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No, I do not fly for k/d, or score at all, as is made obvious by looking at my score.
Fulfilling the parameters of max k/d would be un-fun, albeit I would argue it still take skill to beat the k/d ratios of those who specialize in it. I fly for the satisfaction of devising the best possible tactic to achieve the best outcome I can attain in whatever situation I find myself in. I simply see no greater value in me out-turning a guy because I brought an Fm2 than him out-Hoing my Fm2 because he brought a 190A8, if he can make me fall for it. There are escapes I have made from very bad situations that I find more satisfying than some kills. I do NOT handicap myself by having unrealistic expectations of how "fair" a fight I will get, nor do I waste my emotional energy being angry at what are, after all, my fellow fighter pilots for fighting "unfairly" in an arena which plainly has no rules.
