Plane choice. Why?

[Lazerus1]

Originally posted by lazs2
lazerus.. I am sure that in your world that it does make perfect sense to misquote someone so that it fits the true meaning of their post
lazs

Still makes perfect sense to me:D

[lazs2]

would make sense to me too if my head looked like a toothy green ballon I suppose.
lazs

[GScholz]

Originally posted by moot
bye bye GS

LOL! Thank you for your confidence in me!

I'm surely not an uberpilot, but I think I can give Lazs2 a good fight. Will be fun nomatter who wins.

[lazs2]

I am mediocre at best... I am sure gs will give me a good fite... that's all I ask.  Oh.. don't look for lazs2.. it's just lazs
lazs

[GScholz]

cc, will do. See you in about two weeks.

[gofaster]

Originally posted by Jackal1
Why did you choose the plane, ( or planes), you most frequently fly in AH?  Was your decision made on your experience after trying different planes or was it based on history or possibly a WWII pilot you find interesting?
Just curious.

I select my planes based on the situation.

I fly the Mustang if I have to make a long distance dedication because the forward airfields are capped or if the fuel is porked.

I fly the Yak9U if I see enemies upping for a raid or plan on doing a lot of work below 15k.

I fly the FW190A8 if heavy bombers are involved, or if I plan to make a bunch of HO attacks on fighters, or if there's an opportunity to vulch another airfield.

I fly the FM2 if our carrier is parked off the coast and the action is close, low, and thick.  Or if I'm getting frustrated by N1K2s all over the place.

I've recently started flying the 109G10.  Its' purpose is much like that of the 190A8, but with less HO'ing going on.  Mostly, I started flying it because I've always though the BF109/Me109 planes were just so cool looking.

Last tour I flew the Yak9U and P51D almost exclusively.  I continued flying them this tour, but last night I had some success in the G10 so I may start giving it preferential treatment in the stable.

[gofaster]

Originally posted by GScholz
[BWhat are the strongpoints of the G6? You see I might be looking to upgrade my F4 [/B]

G6 has the same guns as the G10, but with higher perk awards for kills.

The main reason I fly the G6 instead of a G10 is that I'm less likely to noseplant than when I'm flying the G10, but lately I've learned to judge the G10's speed a bit so the control problems are becoming less of a problem.

G6 has bigger guns than F4.
G6 has faster cruising speed than F4.

But, for turning and dogfighting, the F4 is my preferred 109.  For everything else I've started flying the G10.

As of this moment, if you look at my scores for the G10, it'll say 8 kills, 2 deaths, but that's misleading because my first death was due to a collision with a P-47 that decided to scissors at an inopportune moment, and the other was due to my face planting from 1,000 feet after vulching a N1K2 parked on a rearm pad.  Now that I think about it, I think I've only been hit by an enemy plane once, and that was an LA-7 I didn't see coming.  He landed one shell and knocked off my left flap, which wasn't much of a loss because I hadn't planned on using my flaps anyway.

[2stony]

I started flying AH around last October, so my experiance with this game isn't nearly as much as a lot of players. I've been experimenting with lots of different planes and lately I've been trying out the P-38 for a change of pace. I like its guns, but I don't like its visibility. The Yak 9U is the one I up when a base is getting vulched or about to be vulched. It's ammo load isn't the best, so I like to keep it close to a friendly base. I use the P-51 and A-20 for Jabo attacks and any of the 190s for base attack. With so many choices in this game, I like to jump around and try them all.

[GScholz]

Originally posted by gofaster
G6 has the same guns as the G10, but with higher perk awards for kills.

The main reason I fly the G6 instead of a G10 is that I'm less likely to noseplant than when I'm flying the G10, but lately I've learned to judge the G10's speed a bit so the control problems are becoming less of a problem.

G6 has bigger guns than F4.
G6 has faster cruising speed than F4.

But, for turning and dogfighting, the F4 is my preferred 109.  For everything else I've started flying the G10.

As of this moment, if you look at my scores for the G10, it'll say 8 kills, 2 deaths, but that's misleading because my first death was due to a collision with a P-47 that decided to scissors at an inopportune moment, and the other was due to my face planting from 1,000 feet after vulching a N1K2 parked on a rearm pad.  Now that I think about it, I think I've only been hit by an enemy plane once, and that was an LA-7 I didn't see coming.  He landed one shell and knocked off my left flap, which wasn't much of a loss because I hadn't planned on using my flaps anyway.

I see, thanks!

(Btw. I'm guessing you use "combat trim" in the G10? If so, trim her manually and you're never going to compress again )

[gofaster]

Originally posted by GScholz
I see, thanks!

(Btw. I'm guessing you use "combat trim" in the G10? If so, trim her manually and you're never going to compress again )

Yes I do and thanks for the tip!

Now I have to learn how to program my Fighterstick so I can map trim to one of the hat switches.  

[GScholz]

Good luck! Takes a while to figure out how to trim her at different speeds. I'm sure you'll find out what you like. (I prefer constant positive trim ... Hartmann style )

[MANDOBLE]

We can't talk about LW planes in general. 109 and 190 families are like water and oil. Two planes perfectly suited for two opposite fighting ways with a single and unique common point: they both are good buff hunters.

Lazs, think on this: Real world ACM in WW1/2 were designed to deffend from and attack to closer than 300 yards enemies. Here, the "deadly cone" extends from 600 yards to 900 yards, so, rules are very different and much more relaxed for the "turning" planes. The "extend" capability of the non-agile planes now cant counteract the longer time that the agile plane can keep at their six with high chances of scoring hits. We are getting kills over and over at sidewinder range.

[lazs2]

mandoble I believe you are not completely right.  I believe real life guns were every bit as capable of killing at the longer ranges as ours are.   Newbies in this game can't hit a plane at 200 yards.  I have had newbies on my six when I had bingo ammo and 1/2 an elevator and they stayed very close... firing untill they ran out of ammo.  

I think I can generalize about LW planes.. they all put speed  climb and roll over turn and range and durability.
lazs

[MANDOBLE]

Originally posted by lazs2
[Bthey all put speed  climb and roll over turn and range and durability.lazs [/B]

Climb, roll and speed are extraordinary characteristics when the enemy needs to be at 100 or 200 yards before openning fire on you. But  these characteristics become secondary compared to turn when the enemy can kill you at 700 yards over'n over with very few pings.

[Urchin]

Not really... you can hit turning planes pretty easy, as long as they are slow.