Originally posted by Shiva Remember that it was the lucky pilot who made a serious mistake in air combat and both survived to learn from it and returned to his unit to fly again. Look at all the people who've gotten good at attacking bombers in AH, WB, and AW. How many of them got it right the first time? How many of them have never gotten blown up in their plane without being able to bail? Each one who haven't would never have been able to reach their skill level from being able to just grab another plane and try again, rather than dying the first time they blew it badly.Think of what Marseilles' score might have been if he could have just picked another plane and taken off again moments after being shot down. The difference between being able to learn from your fatal mistakes and not making fatal mistakes in the first place is the big difference between people who are good in an air-combat sim and the people who were good at air combat in RL.
During the demonstartion of AH yesterday he led the squad in a fighter sweep, and despite nearly all of us biting the dust, again enjoyed it greatly and I wish you all couldve been hereto listen to his comments. There was lots of humour at our end.
