I need some advice on this fighter.
Last tour I started flying it with the 2x20mm option, and it feels like I'm on to something here...like the big LW secret. I cant back it up with any sources or data, but the 2x20mm variant feels alot better than the 4x20mm option. It feels lighter, it feels like it rolls better, and it feels like it turns better. And when you get really low on gas (like 25% left in fwd, 0% in aft) it feels like a zero (slight overstatement).
Not for long though, and only if you're faster than 300, but in the first 180-270 degrees, I turn with just about everyone. All US fighters, be they blue, green or white, all not-brown spits, the N1k, the La7. If I dont get any hits in during those 270 degrees, I just dive away, get some speed, and run away from most of them. And those that I cant outrun like that, most of them I can outturn in those first 180 degrees. At least that is what it feels like.
It is as if as soon as you show that red 190-icon, everyone assumes you are in a D9, and they expect you to BnZ them to death. No one expects you to turn with them. Because we all know that LW rides cant turn (except the early 109s).
So far the a5 with the 2x20mm option seems to be an excellent in BnZ-situations, but also an excellent turner (under those conditions I mentioned above). My only problem with it is that it is not as easy to run away in it like in the D9.