Mir has it right. Reading is FUNdamental you noobs.
Judging relative energy states is a skill that is especially important with the style of fighting Skyyr and company employ. That skill is only improved by seat time. Basically, the more you see airplanes moving, the better you should be able to judge their every level during a fight.
Skyyr, you're going to have to choose here holmes. You can be the experienced sim pilot whose flown for 16 years, or you can be the clueless bambi, but you can't be both.
So in your 1700 hours of flight, you didn't learn to read energy states as well as I had in less than half the time? Got it.
My flight time in other sims doesn't give me an advantage in reading energy levels in anything but those sims, because energy levels look completely different in every sim. The only thing my experience does is let me know what my results should look like when I'm flying correctly. If you had played other sims, you'd know this as a given. The rate of motion, the closure rates, sounds - it's all completely sim dependent. The only thing that transfers from other sims is knowing what tactics work; learning to implement the tactics and gauge energy levels is almost like starting over.
Anyone else who has played sims competitively can confirm the above.
You have a vast amount more of AH flight time than Fulcrum, yet I can tell you right now he'd kick you to the floor in a IL-2 Cliffs of Dover, if only because he's more familiar with it. Now, according to you, your flight time in Aces High should count as 2,100 hours of IL-2 experience and you should be able to wipe him out pretty easily. See, it doesn't work like that... and should you take that challenge up, rest assured that I will be there watching the entire thing, calling the result from the beginning.
As we told you from the first day we interacted, we know how this ends. We've been flying as a squadron long enough and fighting other guys a heck of a lot tougher and more organized than you. We also know the learning curve associated with sims and this one is no different (even if it is extremely gamey in certain aspects). And even with our previous victories, we're still getting better. It's only going to get worse for you guys from here.
Better luck next time. And maybe, just maybe, you'll think twice before bragging about how badly you'll beat a bunch of "noobs."