56th: Question about 47's

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Frenchy, sancho, and Lefty are probably the best "pure dogfighters" in the squad.  All the guys in the squad are pretty good and hold their own in P-47 though.  They make there virtual rides do some pretty neat things.  Frenchy's gunnery has improved immensly over the past couple of years, making him incredibly deadly.  Sancho has always been a decent shot and up against frenchy, I would say its pretty much a tie as to who would prevail. Lfoot does more squeakin lately than anything else:D, but he never seizes to amaze me at the talent he has in this game.  Several  times we ended up onopposite sides in the CT and he beat me up pretty good.

I have different advice as to how to fly a D25 in the MA.  Lots of flaps, trim, landing gear deployed- or combination of the three in a coordianted manner will give you an edge in a fight against  1 or 2 enemy AC.  There is no doubt that several people in our squad and even more good sticks fly the P-47 to its awesome potential using those technics.  Me, the only time I ever use flaps is when i am landing.  I do use them rarely in a dogfight, but only when i am very slow already and need to keep copntrol of the AC.  I use trim considerably.  But landing gear, only when I am landing.  The P-47 burns energy so fast, and builds it so slow, that I prefer to hold as much of it as i can.   I like to uise enrgy coserving manuevers and I fly the jug at the edge of its envelope.

[WldThing]

Originally posted by Arlo


The Rollaway
 
A variation of the high-speed yo-yo, the rollaway involves rolling away from the target's turn as you invert.  By diving and reversing direction with a 180º turn, you can drop in behind the defender's tail as he ends his break turn.  The principals of this maneuver are otherwise the same as the high-speed yo-yo.

Wow ... I do that move alot, and i never knew the name for it until now...

[Sharky]

Cooley got it right.  The manuver is called a lag displacement roll.  Basicly a way of reducing the amount of foward motion without a loss of energy just as in a lag pursuit or a hi or lo yo-yo.  The biggest problem with the lag displacement roll is it causes the attacker to lose sight of the bandit.  If during the the time the attacker rolls and places the bandit under his field of view the bandit reverses his break, the attacker can find himself looking down the barrels of the bandits guns when reaquiring.  The advantage of the lag roll is it generates more seperation which is helpfull when the attacker has a disadvantage in manuvering. (more seperation the more room the poorer manuvering aircraft has to manuver in)

Sharky