I fly the 38 as much as I can!!!! It has good climb and turn. Use that to ur advange.. If I'm pounced by a BnZer (ie 51 190) Use the turn and climb performance in a climbing spiral. The climbing spiral will bleed the nmes E and it will close some of the Alt gap between you and the nme.. Since a 450mph 51 or 190 can't turn with a 300-275mph 38 w/o blacking out or bleedy his E till he can't zoom back to safety. He dies pretty quik after that.
Now if its a TnBer (ie spit or nik or all the dweeb planes)
I like to do all kinds of crap to make overshoot. I like do flat scissors with rolling reversals. If I'm caught by a higher spit.
I wait till he gets right on my 6. Then when he gets to bout D1.3 or so cut power on both engines start my scissor with a rolling reversal. Pull bout 5 Gs for about 1/3 a turn. Then after he gets back on my 6 bout ready to fire I roll over for another rolling reveral. And pull about 5 Gs. Not long after the 1st couple of reverals he overshoots and I'm right there at bout 175mph with 3 notches of flaps out about the drill his ass!!

Of course I'm not gonna tell all my tricks. So not get a very good insight into my head

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