Stick Stirring, A Resurgent Problem?

[WildBlue]

Stick stirring huh? Well, I guess that's what I ran into last night on a 109... wondered what he was doing, and my bad connect didn't help much either. He did almost force the overshoot though, so maybe I misread what he was doing... something for the anti stick stirring folks to think about there. I have been known to hit the flaps and go into a climbing barrel roll to lose some speed, hoping for the overshoot, and this prolly looks pretty erratic sometimes. But hey, it works often enough to keep me doing it! So, call that cheesy manoever whatever you want, but I'll still keep doing it ! Oh, btw... from what you describe as stirring... not only do I try not to do that (stay smooth or die, hehe), if I did try it, my stick would spike and auger me  yup, usb stick otw here too...

[mrsid2]

I've got the stick stirring message only twice since I became a paying customer.. Both times I was gunning in a lancaster. I was using rudder to make evasive moves and trying to track the enemy at the same time - that seemed to be enough to trigger the thing.

[Vulcan]

Yup stick stirring is happening a lot more. I think its more the newbies than the connects.

Some of the newbie stick stirring is hilarious, from the 190s roll as fast as the can along the z axis without actually deviating from their path to the LA7s that do the slick kick everything til they roll into the ground move.

Honestly, the number of times I've just sat behind them, not fired, and waited for them to kiss a tree or plough a field and come away with a kill has increased 10 fold.

to the stickstirring newbies, keep it up, its doing wonders for my k/d ratio

p.s I noticed the ohmygodi'vecompressed "does the xxxx have dive breaks" crowd has increased in the same proportion

[Tjay]

Originally posted by Vulcan
Honestly, the number of times I've just sat behind them, not fired, and waited for them to kiss a tree or plough a field and come away with a kill has increased 10 fold.

Now that's a useful tip. Except that if they'r in a faster plane they can still run away while doing this stupid stuff.

And as the originator (sort of) of this thread, thanks for all the helpful replies.