The ME262 should be renamed...

[popeye]

We don't need no steenkin jets.    

[Saintaw]

Lol Hblair, was looking for you when you asked about the plane-refueling-with-m3 on channel one.  

I gotta find Vulcan & ask him where he bought his "Assassins homeing device(Tm)" gear from...

[DA98]

Kirin is out of perkies!!! Thanks, God!!!      

[MadBirdCZ]

So that explains the fact why I kept meeting Kirin only in his ugly 190   He was sucked dry by a 262    

[ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: MadBirdCZ ]

[DanielMcIntyre]

Personally I don't really like the ME262 much.  Your going so fast you have very little chance of getting in an effective shot, your ammunition is slow as hell and theres stuff all available, every dweeb and his chog wants to HO you (their only real defense) and if you get past all this, you still gotta worry getting discoed and losing ya 200 perks.

I've killed 4 262's, 2 after the infamous free perk night and really its not that hard.  You fly nice and level on WEP, let em think they bouncing you, at 3 - 2.5k hard manuever vertical or flat into HO position, they're going so fast they'll try to avoid the HO but it'll just put them outta plane and deny them a HO shot, bang snapshot front quarter, kapoof, ded jet.

IMO they're just expensive buff killers not true fighters.

[StSanta]

<Waits for joystick to arrive>

<sulks>

[MadBirdCZ]

Originally posted by Zygote:

IMO they're just expensive buff killers not true fighters.

Ehmm... Werent 262s supposed to BE buff hunters acually?

[hblair]

Originally posted by Zygote:
Personally I don't really like the ME262 much.  Your going so fast you have very little chance of getting in an effective shot, your ammunition is slow as hell and theres stuff all available, every dweeb and his chog wants to HO you (their only real defense) and if you get past all this, you still gotta worry getting discoed and losing ya 200 perks.

I've killed 4 262's, 2 after the infamous free perk night and really its not that hard.  You fly nice and level on WEP, let em think they bouncing you, at 3 - 2.5k hard manuever vertical or flat into HO position, they're going so fast they'll try to avoid the HO but it'll just put them outta plane and deny them a HO shot, bang snapshot front quarter, kapoof, ded jet.

IMO they're just expensive buff killers not true fighters.

Actually, a 262 is pretty deadly to pony-D's, typhies, etc. if flown with a wingie  or two by a pilot who has the cajones (or is crazy/stupid enough to drop 2 notches of flaps and turn). The 262 can turn sharper than most pilots think, but you gotta risk your perkies to do it.

I lost another three 262's last night to stupidness. Was refueling at a large field when a spit dove through the cap and ack and pegged me as I was on the runway, I was clicking tower like a maniac, but wouldn't let me out in time. Another I lost to an HO by another 262 (thought it was an unspoken rule 262's don't HO each other!   ). I lost another hundred points when my game just decided to crash to desktop.

Oh well. Gotta fly ultra-conservatively now.  

[-ammo-]

well there is a thread in the 56th's private forum. We are actively hunting these things. I personally am hunting rook 262's because I get tag-teamed by two of them bum's last night....

[lazs1]

"We don't need no steenkin jets"

Yep... didn't fly em when they were free and not gonna buy one.   What kinda wuss would fly one?
lazs

[Staga]

Originally posted by lazs1:
"We don't need no steenkin jets"

Yep... didn't fly em when they were free and not gonna buy one.   What kinda wuss would fly one?
lazs

Maybe 99% of AH players?
Maybe I should ask what kind of banana wouldn't fly one sometimes if he got points?
(Yeah I found slang word dictionary)

[lazs1]

I have about 2200 of the stupid "perk" points and have no interest in flying one.   I have even less interest in seeing one in the MA.   For the noveltyu value I guess it's ok but it is vastly unfair.

so i guess the type of banana who wouldn't fly one in the MA even tho he had the points is the type that doesn't care about the novelty or attention but would like a good fight.
lazs

[Dawvgrid]

I think those 262 is pretty easy to avoid,,,
if you see them in time that is   ,they come
in very very fast.
dawvgrid
No 272 squadron "whispering death"

[Staga]

There's (at least) two ways to fly a plane like Me-262:
a) Stay safe and attack when it suits you or
b) Go low'n'dirty, fight against other planes (and fear that 25k P-51 over your perk-plane)

It's your choice but I'm sure you can have fun in Schwalbe too. Ask from HBlair or TS more about this one.

[Dawvgrid]

Havent tried one out yet,,,,,dont think i have the nerve  
dawvgrid                                   No 272 squadron "whispering death"