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Help and Support Forums => Help and Training => Topic started by: pimpjoe on August 03, 2001, 12:08:00 AM
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i recently started flying the 190a8 and a5. i really like the planes, but cant seem to pull any good G's with it without LOTS of E. does anybody have any tips?
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pulling many Gs in FW190 is deadly unless u are very light (<50% fuel).
Best is, keep it fast. Try to sneak on the tgt and use vertikal movements to line up a 2nd attack.
Take the time to get some altittude, cause vs. most planes u need an alt advantage.
If nme is better turning plane than u (nearly all planes are, if not all), is making a hard evasive turn dont follow it!!
Go into a high yo-yo or zoom up and roll ur lift vector on him, than fall back.
When u r in the defense, use the FWs roll rate to outscissor ur nme if he is already to close or u dont have the alt to simply dive to savefty (in the A5 and A8 this is hard, cause many planes will get u on the deck).
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thanks naudet. i'll have to give that a try
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what Naudet said :)
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Great points from Naudet... just wanted to add to the no following the break turn thing. Generally if a con break turns away from my attack, I will do a climb back up to my perch. However, you must judge how much "e" you have with respect to the enemy. If you don't have much of an e-advantage and attempt to do a high-G pull up into a loop/hammerhead/immelman, you may be asking for it. The smarter cons will recognize what you are doing and not come up after you. Instead, they will unload and dive a little to gain speed. Then when you are coming back down on them, they will pull up to face you. Either they will joust with you (HO), or pull a lead turn and end up behind you as you overshoot and attempt to pull up. The second method is what I try to do when bounced (something I learned from being on the wrong side of that move). So in that situation (low e-disparity), I would make a gentle climb to extend and watch what the con does. If he/she does indeed have enough e to come up to you, you will have room to get away. The point is to make a judgement call on just how severe a pull up you are going to make, based on what kind of advantage you have over your target. Good luck!
mauser
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thanks for the tips guys. i appreciate it <S>