Are you rolling over? Always check below you too... Straight up is another frequently missed view. If it happens when shortly after take off, it could be a M16 or FP... Or it might be me doing what I call a sniper mission...
I fly NOE way behind enemy lines and nab unsuspecting pile-its as they go gear up.... Is fun. Especially when they give you the WTF on channle 1. Is exhilirating, especially when they figure it out and bring three or four of their buddies to kill yas.
Lil story.... My favorite on was when I was NOE and saw a friendly about 5K straight over my head get jumped on a killed by about 5 190s... was ugly. I was within 500' of the ground so they wouldn't get an icon on me. He'd got some good hits on one though, and it went RTB. The other four proceeded to my field so I fell in on the lone 190s low 6. As we were approaching his field I saw another plane roll towards us... A 109. I got just in ICON range and decided now-or-never so I zoomed up for the 190. I could only imagine that the 109 was screeming check 6, because when I got to 1K the 190 starts waggling his wings - gloating over the kill he had just got
. I opened up about D300 and got the satisfying fireball by D100.... Was a truly great ride... and yes I got the 109 too...
then disappeared back NOE and stealthily got away... Try it sometime... just not on me.
Another suggestion.... turn your film on if it happens frequently. Then watch and see where the baddies got you from. Just 'cause you didn't see them didn't mean they were invisible.