“Alright, lets see what’s happening…” I’m saying out loud at my computer last night until I hit the map and see the clipboard showing ever so much of Uterus.
“Ok, it looks like we still have radar.” I say again as I see the Knights are placed at the bottom.
I was rather surprised when I enlarged the map and saw most, I think only 1 small field and a vehicle field were taken and the bars up north showed quiet a tangle between Rook and Bish. Then the text buffer and radar caught up and I saw the impending doom that A6 was in when across the buffer came…
“Wow, there are a lot of AK’s on the eastern front”. Great, squad night maybe. I head to 6 and up a P51D.
After climbing out to about 8K I turn and climb back to A6 reaching about 15K a few miles before the base. Yup, the dot I saw on take off was still hovering above the field. I kept on course seeing if he would adjust my way. He did and the icon broke, P38 and he had about 2 or 3K on me and I couldn’t discount a shallow dive my direction so E state was unknown.
I hit the map and studied the layout, if we headed east we would drag away from his friends and mine. Good, I’m starting the night off with a 1v1 maybe. I turn east, level out, and hit the wep. P38 was closing and fast. Not running the numbers down second by second but I was 300 in level flight and he was catching no problems.
He pulled within about 2.2K of my 6, I let out a sigh, hit flaps, and pulled hard right keeping an eye on him the whole time. Just out of the circles of blackout I see he’s moving for a snapshot. Excellent, 3 quarters out of the turn I level and pull up on a tight Immeleman. He pulled as well but with all that E and speed I get in side and land a short burst, not even a full second and he was out of gun range and climbing.
“Ok, he’s climbing, what know Sherlock”. I roll over and nose down, I pull them ropes too many times I’m not going to sucker into the first one. I extend but by doing so I have given, or rather he has kept, all the E and altitude advantage he had before. Normally I have pulled that move before on a hi speed long 6 con and it works well. They usually end up trying to get the angle so bad they loose all their advantages and I end up chasing them to the deck. Not today.
At least 3 more times we did similar maneuvers with same affect. That nose of that P38 never turned down. We gradually lost altitude to the deck, he was always a little higher. He kept on until I finally made a mistake and he plastered me.
My heart was thumping, my leg jumping, and as I was looking out my 6 at the twisted sky going in circles to the ground I let out a sigh and looked at the clock. Ten minutes. I was locked in a 1v1 for 10 minutes. I felt like I had been running circles around my block.
I let a smile out at the monitor as I sat looking at the clock in the tower. Don’t get me wrong, I died that sucked, but the fight was great.
That’s why I fly AH. It’s the 10 minute sections of time that I can get lost in the moment. They don’t come very often, but when they do, they’re great!
Bug333. Excellent fight. Great use of E and patients.
