Author Topic: That Old Debate- "plane" or "pilot"? (Read 1183 times)

ZAMO · « **Reply #90 on:** November 19, 2002, 04:31:32 AM »

Urchin,

Some days ago, I and 4 mates with different planes I cant remember fought you all the same time. I remember I was going to have an easy kill on your TA152, but you did a quick vertical scissors and got my dora, then you kill my mates. I re-uped and when I got there any of my mates were flying. "Urchin has landed 8 kills in a TA152".

It was THE MAN there.....you have all my respect .... you are a great pilot. I could never do what you did there....no matter my plane of choice.

(S) Zamo

thrila · « **Reply #91 on:** November 19, 2002, 08:53:50 AM »

Of course the plane matters, just not as much as the pilot.

Turbot · « **Reply #92 on:** November 19, 2002, 09:22:46 AM »

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Originally posted by wulfie
Turbot, I don't think anyone has commented one way or the other on Urchin's 'flying ability' in this thread.

Just my $.02.

Mike/wulfie

Again I am not specific enough - I really should write longer explanations, maybe include pictures, but I thought the data was self explanatory.

Title of Thread: Plane or pilot
Poster: Urchin
Data: Three of Urchin's 190's w/ Results.

This is the relevance.

Turbot · « **Reply #93 on:** November 19, 2002, 09:47:20 AM »

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Originally posted by sax
So its clear He doesn't have any thing to complain about.

He wasn't.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #94 on:** November 19, 2002, 02:00:16 PM »

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Originally posted by ZAMO
Urchin,

Some days ago, I and 4 mates with different planes I cant remember fought you all the same time. I remember I was going to have an easy kill on your TA152, but you did a quick vertical scissors and got my dora, then you kill my mates. I re-uped and when I got there any of my mates were flying. "Urchin has landed 8 kills in a TA152".

It was THE MAN there.....you have all my respect .... you are a great pilot. I could never do what you did there....no matter my plane of choice.

(S) Zamo

First day?

OIO · « **Reply #95 on:** November 19, 2002, 02:22:43 PM »

You poor fools. Urchin actually hires a good pilot to fly on his PC with his HOTAS.

He's in charge of the keyboard

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #96 on:** November 19, 2002, 05:04:42 PM »

In aerial combat what really counts is SA, tactics and numbers, so, for MA is the player/s what counts over the plane by a wide margin.

In the very particular case of a dogfight 1 vs 1, basically, the plane determines what and what not the pilot can do, so, in the long term, is the plane over the pilot unless we refer to very similiar planes.