What could I have done better in these fights?

[Iamtheknight]

http://www.mediafire.com/download/r1j7ctt0gz5987s/duelsbones.ahf

[Skyyr]

http://www.mediafire.com/download/r1j7ctt0gz5987s/duelsbones.ahf

I just saw this post - surprised no one really responded with all of the post views. Guess there wasn't much to critique about your flying overall.

But seriously, BoNeZ is a solid pilot. Those were some pretty good fights.

[JunkyII]

Your blowing it with your first turn into the vertical....your bleeding a ton of E (Not getting any angles) and he's just baiting you into a rope...which you kept falling for.

He's letting you kill yourself following his spiral climb so aggressively.


Your doing some sort of single immelmen followed by a lazy upward turn....I don't know your merge could use some work.

I might have the name wrong but he is doing a luftberry....which is what I see 80-90% of all my duels I've had.

[Skyyr]

I might have the name wrong but he is doing a luftberry....which is what I see 80-90% of all my duels I've had.

From what I saw in the film, those weren't luftberrys.

[FLS]

Raoul Lufbery is credited with developing the landing pattern but is known for the defensive circle which is actually a formation maneuver.   http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Lufbery

More than one circuit in a flat turn is often called a lufbery even in a 1v1 dogfight.

[JunkyII]

Technical terms I don't have the time for . The spiral climb he's doing at the beginning...Someone had called me out in the MA for it as a lufbery (someone who at least sounds well versed in ACM talk)

[Iamtheknight]

Heh, actually I was making that reversal kind of lazier than I normally do, in anticipation of zooming tactics...

Your blowing it with your first turn into the vertical....your bleeding a ton of E (Not getting any angles) and he's just baiting you into a rope...which you kept falling for.

He's letting you kill yourself following his spiral climb so aggressively.


Your doing some sort of single immelmen followed by a lazy upward turn....I don't know your merge could use some work.

So, what should I do different?
 

[FLS]

On your first turn you should have used lag pursuit to get position on his 6 instead of going for the crossing shot.

In general you're always going for shots, even if you can't make them, instead of flying to position to set up a better shot.

[Iamtheknight]

So fly where he's been, not where he's going to be?

On your first turn you should have used lag pursuit to get position on his 6 instead of going for the crossing shot.

In general you're always going for shots, even if you can't make them, instead of flying to position to set up a better shot.

[FLS]

Merge with his flight path behind the bandit using lag pursuit instead of crossing his flight path in front of him with lead pursuit.

Flying lag pursuit will usually set up a better lead pursuit shot or a tracking shot.

[Puma44]

Maneuver your lift vector to his six o'clock position.  If you are maneuvering your flight path in front of him, you are setting yourself up the be the victim of a snap shot.   

[FLS]

If you have trouble visualizing lag pursuit just go to the TA with a buddy and turn airshow smoke on. When you merge fly to the end of your buddy's smoke trail.

[morfiend]

If you have trouble visualizing lag pursuit just go to the TA with a buddy and turn airshow smoke on. When you merge fly to the end of your buddy's smoke trail.

   This^^^^


   It's a very effect way of learning to fly a lag pursuit!   It will teach you to fly for position instead of flying the gunsight at the enemy.




     

[Traveler]

You could have flown with a wingman and improved your odds. Come fly with the 113th Lucky Strikes , we fly as Knights on Saturday evenings in the LWA Vox 113.  7:00PM EDST.