Aces High Bulletin Board
Help and Support Forums => Help and Training => Topic started by: NoJoy on November 07, 2012, 10:39:24 PM
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New to Aces, only playing for a few days. Love the mature community so far. I would like to be more of an asset to the experience. If anyone can give a newbie a 1 on 1 I would be thankful. I'll be away for a the next week and a half. If anyone is willing to spend a little time in the training arena with me when I get back I'll appreciate it.
Thanks,
NoJoy
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Many good trainers in the community that are official and unofficial, just tune 200 and ask if anyone is willing and 9 times out of 10 someone will be willing.
Welcome :salute
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If you go into the training arena any time after 6:00pm EST, you will almost always find someone in there who has a little experience. After 9:00pm EST there is usually one of the official trainers in. If you are in and you send out that first message though, wait for an answer or even repeat the message. Lately when I have been in, I have been practicing carrier landings. One new guy came in, sent a message asking for help with something when I was on final for the carrier. By the time I landed, he left! I am not going to throw away a good approach so I can type something in that 15 second time frame. If someone is not willing to help, you'll figure it out real quick cause they never answer but I have only run into that once or twice. The other hundred times, AH players have been very helpful. I even had a Bishop (watch out for the Bish) that had just killed me give me advice! This is a great community.
A quick note, if you are having trouble flying (landing etc), switch to a tricycle gear plane. New folks come in and select the too famous P51. Real high performance comes at a price sometimes. P51 is hard to learn the basics with. So is the F4U Corsair. P38 is much easier to take off and land. For a tail dragger, I like the Hurricane. Great easy to read gauges and easy to fly plane. If you are real good at flying but lost when it comes to ACM (air combat maneuvers), the Spitfire is excellent. I like the Spit VIII (Spit 8) for learning in the Training Arena. Eventually you will find what suits you the best.
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:salute mature what? sure you playing same game i am? :cheers:
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You may enjoy winging up with some expenienced members, The 113th Lucky Strikes invites everyone to come wing up for a flight or an entire evening, we fly as Knights (always have, always will), on Saturday evenings, operations start around 7:00PM EST, Vox 113. Check out our Wiki page.
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Some videos that will help while your away. :D
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54E5CE4C59347B00&feature=view_all (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54E5CE4C59347B00&feature=view_all)
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NoJoy, I'd be glad to fly with ya some. Shoot me a PM, and we'll figure out what day/time will work.
:salute
Jager
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If you go into the training arena any time after 6:00pm EST, you will almost always find someone in there who has a little experience. After 9:00pm EST there is usually one of the official trainers in. If you are in and you send out that first message though, wait for an answer or even repeat the message. Lately when I have been in, I have been practicing carrier landings. One new guy came in, sent a message asking for help with something when I was on final for the carrier. By the time I landed, he left! I am not going to throw away a good approach so I can type something in that 15 second time frame. If someone is not willing to help, you'll figure it out real quick cause they never answer but I have only run into that once or twice. The other hundred times, AH players have been very helpful. I even had a Bishop (watch out for the Bish) that had just killed me give me advice! This is a great community.
A quick note, if you are having trouble flying (landing etc), switch to a tricycle gear plane. New folks come in and select the too famous P51. Real high performance comes at a price sometimes. P51 is hard to learn the basics with. So is the F4U Corsair. P38 is much easier to take off and land. For a tail dragger, I like the Hurricane. Great easy to read gauges and easy to fly plane. If you are real good at flying but lost when it comes to ACM (air combat maneuvers), the Spitfire is excellent. I like the Spit VIII (Spit 8) for learning in the Training Arena. Eventually you will find what suits you the best.
Teaxasfighter makes some very good points.
I don't know how many times someone has come into the TA asked for help only to leave before anyone could respond. The other is they come in and want lessons on how to dogfight but they can't even land the plane. You have to be able to control the plane before you try to fight in it. If you can't take off, land, and recover from stalls you won't ever be able to effectively fight.
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:salute mature what? sure you playing same game i am? :cheers:
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Use the offline practice arena to get used to the airplane. There is a reason new pilots do a bunch of touch and go landings. Fly formation with the drones for a while. When you are feeling really good about how well you fly, try flying through the bomber hangers. I found that doing offline practice payed huge dividends when I went online.
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