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Help and Support Forums => Help and Training => Topic started by: Jekyll on February 09, 2001, 07:28:00 PM
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WTG badboy on your excellent article on AimHQ re energy management.
For those who have trouble reading E-M diagrams, I've pirated one of Badboy's (Showing Spit IX-P51 comparison) and made a few modifications.
The beauty of E-M diagrams is that they not only show you what an aircraft can do, but also suggest what kind of tactics you should employ when faced with a dissimilar enemy aircraft.
(http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/phoenix/images/fig11.jpg)
Hopefully, its self-explanatory. Equally hopefully, its correct (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Chapter 13, verse 11
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Hi Jekyll,
Thanks.
You seem to have a pretty good grasp of things. Even though it would seem that the Spitfire should want to get the fight into that orange zone as soon as he can, I prefer to stay as high into that yellow zone for as long possible. If you get greedy and pull into the orange too soon, the good P-51 drivers have little difficulty leaving the fight. I hate letting them get away like that, so I stay as fast as I can as long as I can, and only pull hard enough to stay neutral. That way, you might even fool the P-51 driver into thinking he is fighting a dweeb, and bleeding his own E... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Anyway, I like what you have done, I may do something similar in future (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Badboy