Yeah eagler I'm going to up a k4 or p51 when I enter the bottom of a fight against an entire country with little to no help. I can't explain to you why a mob of 30 guys sitting 15 to 20k over a field though feel the need to roll tempest and such.If it's fun for you to put yourself at an even bigger disadvantage.. to each their own.
The P-38 makes up the majority of the kills in my AH career, yet I was chastised for learning how to fly the 152 and D9 to fight the mobs... It used to be fun to start with a disadvantage like that, but all too often it seemed like it turned into 1v10. I had to completely change my flying style to accommodate the rest of the arena just to have fun (and it wasn't fun for the record).
with AWACS radar, taking off from another fields does not help, horde climb more to bounce incoming threats. With old radar you could climb up undetected, and have a fighting chance, still outnumbered though.
I heard the AWACS dar was to help all the new players find the fight....