Originally posted by AKFokerFoder+
I'd love to learn how to fly like that, 
I just don't seem to be able to make the "snap" at the top of a vertical roll.
I've tried combat trim off, lots of up elevator, cutting engine, turning engine off, rudder, no rudder, flaps, no flaps.
I just suck at this game 
But I do a decent drive by shooting
well i have a standing offer that bears repeating... feel free to switch sides and use join for a few sorties before you log. doesn't even have to be me per se, ask any stick you know who can make a certain plane dance.
while some things can be taught via TA/DA, the MA has more variables and riding along will give you some insight to how someone like myself sees, thinks and reacts to an encounter. the ability to anticipate cannot be under-rated.
in the end, it's all about one's accumulated experiences. i'm not a technical flyer per se, i'm seat of the pants. badboy did a neat write up on some OODA thingy in the training forum under a spit subject - "new spitfire comparison". Here's an excerpt from it:
{Badboy}
Ok, here is an extract from part one of my series of lectures on the OODA loop.
The OODA loop was originated a number of years ago by a USAF fighter pilot and highly thought of tactician Colonel John Boyd. His OODA loop stands for Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act...this being the decision process that a pilot goes through in solving any given BFM problem during an engagement. For example, if you see you opponent change his flight path with an aileron roll, you are in the “Observe” phase of the loop. You then need to comprehend what effect your opponents changes will have on the situation, so now you are in the “Orient” phase. Now you need to make a decision from the many options available, and while doing that you are in the “Decide” phase. Finally, you need to execute that decision with a manoeuvre of your own, so you are in the “Act” phase of the loop, and so it continues.
When I teach this to flight sim’ pilots I prefer to call it the "Boyd Cycle" (when I call it the Boyd loop, some folk expect it to involve a loop manoeuvre) and I explain that the pilot who consistently completes the cycle faster gains an advantage that increases with each cycle. Because the gains are additive the slower pilot becomes increasingly slower by comparison and therefore less effective until, finally, he is overcome by events....blah blah blah (but interesting blah blah blah)
