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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: mosca on November 26, 2001, 12:49:00 PM
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Finally!
I know that header sounds stupid to some of you "vets" in here, but I work 12 hour days & my family takes up most of what's left of my free time, so I only fly an hour or so a week, and sometimes go as much as 2 weeks between sessions. It's hard to learn how to play under those conditions.
Last night during the virtual early morning hours I got my first 2 kills, a Spit and a Stang, both with a P47/25.
The spit was a lucky kill; it just appeared in front of my guns from behind and I whacked it reflexively; I think it was coming from above and overshot.
The Stang could've used a "check 6" call; if ever there was a historically accurate shoot-down, this was it. I don't think the pilot saw me until he went boom. I got real close and pushed both buttons, opening up all 8 .50s. I felt like Puff the Magic Dragon; they chewed that sucker right up.
That P47/25 is a nice ride, not at all the liability it was in... <ahem>, some other sim. A poor man's Typhoon, maybe? I don't know enough about the perk planes to make a comparison, and I'll never get a perk ride, but I think that this plane is OK with me, for now anyhow. I figure, keep it fast, and stay aware, and it'll get me around the arena just fine.
Mosca
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<S> and WTG mosca! You've certainly haven't chosen the easiest plane to learn the ropes in and I salute you for that!!
1Wmaker1
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Congrats, Mosca!
Go paint two kills on your canopy rails!
I think you're right about frequency. If I take a week or two off, my shooting goes down the tubes.
All part of the attraction for me, though.
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Was this last night in the TA and were the icons green?
:D j/k!!!
Congrats Mosca: ) I think you'll enjoy the P-47 here. I know I have and very much so at that when I was flying it a lot.
Westy
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Congrats Mosca as a new father myself I try to fly when I can .. its tuff but kids are better ....
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Good to hear Mosca! It is definitely more fun when stuff blows up in front of you instead of around you. ;)
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"new father myself ..."
CONGRADULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!
Wondered what happened to you. What a "good" thing it turned out to be that made you drop out of sight. :)
Westy
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Congrats on the kills!
And.....WTG on the kids..got four myself...best thing I ever did :)
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Excellent job Mosca!
It is definitely more fun when stuff blows up in front of you instead of around you
WHAT!?? You mean its possible for stuff to blow up IN FRONT of you?
*wanders off scratching head pondering what such an image must look like* :D
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WTFG!!
Gettin yer first kill is like getting laid for the first time in your sleep.
When yah finally accomplish it, you don't know how it happened; and you don't freakin care, either. Yah just wanna go back there and do it again. :D
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Sodas first kill was some clown named Hangtime.. His first night playing...
Wtg Mosca..
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Hell, thats nothin new pongo... my first kill was me too.
:D
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"Gettin yer first kill is like getting laid for the first time in your sleep."
This is a regular thing?
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Sigh. I remember the first time I had sex. I was scared as hell...
all alone, in the dark, in the closet....
Mosca