Late last night I flew in AH for the first time in a week. I decided to put all 60 of my remaining perk points on the line and grabbed a Spitfire Mk XIV with a droptank.
Rooks were their normal, massively outnumbered selves so I took off from a second line field (A36), which was fine as we hadn't any third line fields left. After climbing to 21,000ft I leveled off and headed north towards A24 looking for prey.
Just before reaching A24 I spotted a Bf109 well below me, so I jetisoned the external tank and dove on him at a low throttle setting. He saw me comming and did a break turn back towards A24, offering me a turn fight. I declined, turned on WEP and pointing the nose skyward again. As I climbed I saw an A6M, somewhat higher than the Bf109, join the fray. As I topped out my zoom climb I pulled the nose back down and prepared to make a pass on the A6M, but saw that he still had his nose cominng right at me. I avoided the head on, and tried for a second pass at the 109, once again he tried to pull me low and into a turnfight so I went back up. While I zoomed back upstairs the A6M tried to get my perk plane with a good old spray and pray from 950 yards out, but I quickly left it below me.
Once my speed dropped to 140mph I leveled out to get a picture of the situation around me. I saw that the 109 had had enough and was making for A24, the A6M was trying to climb up to me and an F4U had made an appearance below and a few clicks from me. As A6Ms are squirrly targets, I decided to try for the F4U. I dove on him and he preformed the expected breakturn. I went up with the intention of comming down on him, but as I climbed I spotted an La-7 at D4.6 and a bit above me. Checking my altimeter I saw that the manuvering had pulled me down to 10,000ft.
At only 10,000ft, slow from the zoom climb and with an La-7 bearing in I decided it was time to leave. I turned on the WEP and started to climb as I watched the La-7 close the distance. At D2.2 he started to lose ground, but kept after me. I noticed that I was heading north east, into enemy territory, so I began a slow turn to the south. This allowed the La-7 to close back to D1.5, but once again when I straightened out he could not maintain his position, even after I turned my WEP off.
At 25,000ft I decided to engage and turned towards the La-7 while engaging WEP once again. As we headed for eachother we positioned so that we would pass to eachother's left. Immediately after passing the La-7 I rolled over into a left turn and pulled it as tight as I could in the thin air. I saw that The La-7 had tried a right turn. As we came around I could see that he wasn't going to come close to a gun solution. As it happens, I could not quite get a gun solution either, but unlike for the La-7 it was a very close thing. Pulling over into a right turn I saw the La-7 also reverse. By this time it was clear to me that while he might have a slight edge below 10,000ft, up here the Spitfire Mk XIV dominated the La-7. As wemoved closer it was obvious to me that I would get a gun solution this pass. Apparently it became evident to the La-7's pilot as well because at nearly the last moment the La-7 nosed down and dived. I put my nose down and followed, firing a burst as I did so. I obtained one hit, probably a .303 but possibly one of the twenty-three 20mm rounds. The La-7 easily pulled away in the dive and at 18,000ft I pulled up, not willing to go down to his favorable altitudes to fight. The La-7 leveled at about 15,000ft and tried to get me to make another go in order to pull me low, but I declined so he headed north.
With my fuel running a little low, and it being late, I turned and headed southeast to A30 and landed.
