Thanks, TC.
I think I understand the basic concept but correct me if I'm wrong - you're basically saying you've got one aircraft making a tighter circle, the other one making a larger circle, but instead of trying to match each other's circle, you fly your own one but offset enough so that they intersect at a point where you can kill them?
If I'm following you then I think I understand it in theory, but putting it into practice is difficult for me because there is a chance, initially at least, of cutting inside and pulling lead with full flaps but like you said, at the cost of energy. It's kind of a "leap of faith" for me to not try and cut inside on the turn and to perceptually visualize them pulling away, at least initially. I'm also not really sure how to position my aircraft initially to set up the offset...
I think this is something I really need stick time to see, film, study. I kind of figure with my style if I had the energy I would probably do as you said and use a high yoyo/low yoyo rather than commit to the flat turn on the deck, but sometimes you just don't have enough energy to get as high as you need to so as to cut into the turn. Getting into a flat turn and going round and round is totally foreign to me though on occasion I do get in these situations and I start losing ground either in actuality or perhaps that's just my perception, so I wind up trying to reverse it, which sometimes works but can be pretty dicey when you're at such a speed that you're stuck in a flat turn in the first place. Certainly the longer I wait to reverse the worse my position tends to become.
I definitely will throw ya a PM if I see you on. Junky, if you're having the same issue them maybe working on this together with TC or another trainer would work out because then we could either sit in each others planes or even better use CM eye mode (that's available in the TA, right?) while being on channel and observing.
