Well being a seasoned 1 week veteran. I've noticed a few things about AH and flight sims in general that might help others. Just a little fun, hope it brings back some memories or a smile
1) Dust specks on the monitor can cause you a great deal of stress.
2) While (IMHO) CH Products rock!!! They need to hire someone to translate their tech stuff into english.
3) While (IMHO) CH Products rock!!! You will not find the exact item you are looking for in SE Michigan including the Detroit area. Just order the frickin' things online and pocket the gas money. While Best Buy and Electronics Boutique may stock them, they don't actually have them in their stores. Huh? Certainly much easier to find something like an elephant collar actually on the store shelves.
4) Taking off is easy (even without auto take off). But landing is hard.
5) It would seem having a good POV system setup is more important to having a good plane.
6) Staying calm and relaxed will get even a newbie an occasional kill
7) Newbies have an advantage in one respect. There is absolutely no way to figure out what we are going to do. As we usually haven't decided this ourself. Our complete lack of understanding of any proven flying technique can at times give us some incredible moves. My famous "climb straight up, stall, and fall straight down" is something to behold. And if I happen to pull out of it I've got some real speed going!
8) If you seek advice ... there's usally 10 different ways to do the exact same thing. So just go with the easiest one.
9) Smoking while in a dogfight will get the hell burned out of something. Usually you or the carpet.
10) Don't put a lot of money into the "honor among pilots" stuff. I've been vulched, shot down in a chute, and nearly everything else that "isn't suppose" to happen. As more folks wander in I'm sure you'll see a lot more of this. Although I admit if I gotta chase your butt for 15 minutes, you can bet jumping out isn't going to distract me much. I've considered killing you for far to long to turn back now
11) While a spit may be the one of the most dangerous planes in the game. A vet in a piece of junk, off the wall plane, will hand you your donut much faster than you would think.
12) Taking off at the edge of the world to get a ton of alt is fine. But you will run out of fuel at nearly the first instant you see any enemy plane. Having had this happen twice I feel there is a mathmatical theory at work here.
13) Regardless of you altitude, someone will *always* be 1 to 2K above you. And they will be smiling.
14) If you shoot at things, they will come.
15) Someone will send you a request to join their bomber at the worst time possible. Just because I'm on a field gun doesn't mean to me I'm not having fun or busy
16) It takes way to long to bother going anywhere in a tank.
17) Wife and or children will demand your attention usually at the moment you are about to make that first kill that showed the slightest amount of skill. Don't make the mistake of going for the kill. Just auger and write it off. Or listen to the "why don't you have the computer make dinner" story for 3 days.
18) Enemy planes will be on the opposite side of whatever ship gun you select. For some reason this falls way out of the 50/50 chance thing.
19) Bombing in this game is clearly explained only if you've already learned how to do it.
20) Don't confuse "I'm taking this guy in front of me out" as a lack of SA. If I have half a chance at killing this guy in front, I don't care if there are 4 enemy planes behind me. When your new deaths are common and kills are few. I knew you were back there
21) If you run out of ammo chasing someone and they are basicly going the way you want to anyway, just play along. It's also a good way to focus on tactics without being hindered by needing to concentrate on firing.
There's way more, but this post is too long already
Hope you got a grin. LP
