"Aces High and Air Combat hints" Updated

[Xjazz]

Aces High and Air Combat related link collection:

FIRST STEPS
* Aces High offical Help file (4.5M)
http://downloads.hitechcreations.com/AHHELP.EXE

* Everything about Aces High. !Recomemded site!
http://www.netaces.org/

* How the NET-lag effect to the online flying
http://www.rdrop.com/users/hoofj/netlag.htm



AIR COMBAT
* Good articles from SimHq / Air Combat Corner Library
http://www.simhq.com/_air/acc_library.html

Recomended Readings
- Energy Management: Picking the Right Airplane for the Job
- Boom And Zoom Tactics part 1-4
- Air To Air Gunnery Revisited - Guns, Gunsights, and Convergence

- Air To Air Gunnery - Theory And Application - Part 1-3
- How To Fly The Scissors Maneuver
- Tips for On-Line Tactical Formation Flying

* Heavy stuff if interested
- Shoot to Kill / European Air War
- It's All A Matter of Perspective - Part 1-4


* Countering the BnZ Defense
http://members.aol.com/karbarra/tactics/bnzcount.html

* Avoiding the head-on attack and other defensive situations
http://users.eastlink.ca/~sconrad/hodefense.htm

* Some pictures and descriptions about Air Combat Maneuvers
http://members.tripod.com/~Zuel_DIA/topgun11.html

* ACM films in Real Audio format
http://spandau.250x.com/acm/acmfilm.htm



ACES HIGH AIR PLANES
* Plane valuation and specific tactics:
Soda's Aircraft Evaluations. How to fight in it or how to beat it
http://www.telusplanet.net/~dsoder/models.htm

'Primer' for new LW pilots by Urchin
http://www.hitechcreations.com/foru...?threadid=43808

"Advanced" LW Primer: The 190A8 by Urchin
http://www.hitechcreations.com/foru...?threadid=43808


* AH Planes performance charts:
The page these charts are located, is "Kingcat's Aces High", a Korean AH website
SPEED (HTC official charts)
http://kingcat.hihome.com/speedgraph.html

CLIMB RATE (HTC official charts)
http://kingcat.hihome.com/climbgraph.html

ROLLRATE (Analyzed with AH game data)
http://kingcat.hihome.com/rollrate.html

ACCELERATION (Analyzed with AH game data)
http://kingcat.hihome.com/accel.html


* Energy Managment charst by Badboy
http://www.hitechcreations.com/foru...&threadid=83992

[Blooz]

Nothing about flying as a team and working together to achieve victory?

Sorry, just a bit frustrated lately.

Thanks. Lots of good links there.

Man, I gotta get into a squad or something.....

[BigMax]

Originally posted by Blooz
Nothing about flying as a team and working together to achieve victory?

The Fighter Pilot's Bible:

Fighter Combat Tactics & Maneuvering, by Robert Shaw

It covers ALL facets of A2A combat...  Buy it! Read it! & then Read It Again!

[Jospe-Home]

Originally posted by BigMax
The Fighter Pilot's Bible:

Fighter Combat Tactics & Maneuvering, by Robert Shaw

It covers ALL facets of A2A combat...  Buy it! Read it! & then Read It Again!

I highly recommend this book.  It changed online simming altogether for me.

Lead, Lag, Pure pursuit.

E - Fighting

Angles Fighting

Disparity

Great pictures aswell...... showing in detail manuvers

Read it ... Read it  ... Read it. ..........  

Jospe

[Xjazz]

Originally posted by Blooz
Nothing about flying as a team and working together to achieve victory?

- Tips for On-Line Tactical Formation Flying

[Cooley]

Your welcome to ride along with us as a guest anytime Blooz.

look us up, we fly for Bish

http://www.geocities.com/cools367/367th.html

Shaw's book is awesome ! been stuck in chapter 3 and 4 for years,lol.
Though planes retain E so well in AH doin hi G turns, some tactics dont really apply, IMO of course

[jodgi]

Good post Xjazz!

Thanks.

[TracerX]

Noooo!  Blooz, don't do it.  Don't fly bish!  Quick, step away from the computer, think about what your doing!  Don't listen to them!

Just kidding, if you want to fly Knights, tune CH 119, and we will pair up.  I can show you how to get shot down by the best of 'em.

[Shane]

Originally posted by BigMax
The Fighter Pilot's Bible:

Fighter Combat Tactics & Maneuvering, by Robert Shaw

It covers ALL facets of A2A combat...  Buy it! Read it! & then Read It Again!

you mean if i actually read shaw, i could.. could.. be even better?!?

[gofaster]

Originally posted by Xjazz
Aces High and Air Combat related link collection:
"Advanced" LW Primer: The 190A8 by Urchin
http://www.hitechcreations.com/foru...?threadid=43808

That page cannot be found.

So I'll summarize based on my own experience.

Select the four 20mm and two heavy MG load-out.  Bring 50% fuel and a drop tank, or 75% internal.  Climb on WEP to 10k, normal-engine climb to 15k, WEP to 20k, normal climb at your leisure from there or level if enemy aircraft tend to be at 10k or less.  At first sign of enemy aircraft icons, release the drop tank if you brought it.  Select a target, dive at full throttle to 400ias, then cut throttle to avoid overspeed (and giving away your presence by your motor sound).  Fire guns from d300 or less from behind (if you're rate of closure is very rapid, you can begin firing at d400 and let them travel into the target as you close).  If you miss, go full throttle with WEP and shallow-climb away.

If the enemy turns before you reach your firing range, do not turn with him.  Instead, climb away on WEP.

If the enemy turns to press a frontal head-on attack, line the enemy aircraft up and begin firing all guns at d1.0 and let the shells travel into him.  

Do not engage your next enemy aircraft until you have achieved at least 10k alt or more.  You may need the altitude to dive away in case you find yourself in trouble.

After you have vanquished your foes, strafe some 20mm ammunition on the town buildings.  A burning city will incite more enemy aircraft to launch, whereas burning fuel tanks will just make the enemy go somewhere else and deprive you of your victory kills.

[gofaster]

Originally posted by Shane
you mean if i actually read shaw, i could.. could.. be even better?!?

No, not really, but at least you'll sound more intelligent.

[Xjazz]

Grrr!

I messed up the AH bbs links:(

[Jospe-Home]

Skuzzy,  can this be made into a sticky ?   It would be a great reference for new/experienced pilots comming in and a shame to lose it into the abyss of posts below.

Jospe

[DmdFiat]

No Shane ....there is no such thing as getting better than you are already!

[BigMax]

Originally posted by Shane
you mean if i actually read shaw, i could.. could.. be even better?!?

Yes...

Even you Shane...