these tips are meant for use against the majority of pilots, they do not always apply to the more expierienced fighter pilot.
most buff pilots by nature are patient you have to be for those long flights.where as most fighter pilots are not.many won't bother climbing above you and will fly up your six or attack from below.usually within a 30 deg cone seen from your tail turret.
thier basic approach usually gives away their skill or lack of it.
a tactic which works well against a fighter struggling to climb up to you and close the distance,is to drop back to 1/4 throttle.the distance between you now closes much faster,sometimes faster than they were prepared for giving you maybe that extra second you need.
resist the temptation to aim dead centre of his spinner because in the case of the lanc or the b26 you will only have 2 guns on him if he is low on your six.rather aim for a wing,chop one of those and they are on the way back to the tower.
as you will know you can still turn your buff while in a turret.learn to fire whilst in that turn, a b26 will turn sharp on very little throttle and quite often a fighter will slow with you.and those stubby winged little la7's which make up the majority of ah seem to go into an epileptic fit at that point.
planes diving verticaly down at you are another matter.they are harder to hit as the angle is not so easy to judge and if it's a full house 190 then it only needs a few hits on you and tata.
p51's with they lighter weapons will need a more sustained burst at you so as they come within gun range turn sharp firing as you do.you may take hits but once again if the pilot is a rookie he will try to get back on you as quickly as possible bleeding his airspeed as he does so.
killing the throttles altogether sometimes causes the fighter to fly down in front of you as you may have been under his nose during his initial dive.
against a lanc or the 26 a ho attack is nasty as if he comes down on you all you have are the lanc,s 303's 4 of them or the 26's upper turret.strangely enough i rarely get attacked from this position.
as i have said these tactics work well against the larger potion of attackers,
there are of course the minority who seem to know exactly what you will do before you do it and to those i give a hearty salute.
if you kill one of them then it is usually by luck.a patient well executed attack by a cannon equiped fighter will kill you 9 times out of 10 on the first pass irrespective of your defensive capabilities.
if you are one of the masochists who insists on flying a ju88 into the local hotspot then there is one good tip i can suggest.as the fighter turns towards you.jump out.
[ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: dracken1 ]
[ 01-02-2002: Message edited by: dracken1 ]
