DMF! Do you remember that sortie? I think I did call to you, didn't I? I just looked at the film but as I thought I didn't start the recorder till later. I've been working at improving my buff downing abilities, so I turned the recorder on when I saw a formation so I could review it later to see what I could have done differently. I didn't see you respawn. The airfield was a complete mess by then, with bish all over it like a cheap suit. I think even all the FH were down. The mannable ack was still there, so I got in that and got about four of them but... ooops
mustn't go there... Hehe, the "superior pilot" maxim was not meant for myself; it's just something I remember seeing at one of my old flying clubs. I never claimed to have any skill. In fact I could dig out posts on this board where I have openly proclaimed that I have NO skill. I guess I just work with what I have. As for downing buffs, it's just a matter of aiming at the wingtips. And of course, dealing with a formation of buffs is entirely without risk.
As for having an advantage in the P47, does anyone realise how slowly it climbs with 2x1000 hanging off it? And yet that was the configuration I was flying to get to the enemy base.
Hehe, time to give the pot another stir! I thought my last post would rattle a few cages. Funny how Mr. Toad can come out with statements like
"I can also get 7 in an F4F-4 in a furball and land. I've been furballing in a 205 and getting 5-6 too. - and nobody bats an eyelid, but if I mention landing a similar number of kills, it's construed as "crowing" and I'll have three or four jumping all over me. Can you say "double standard"?
No homework at all involved. We all know how you fly.
So why do you want the film so badly? You seem to be condemnatory of my flying methods. And yet all I do is to fly what I like. I also fly how I like, like how I fly, and don't worry about how the other guy flies. It is, after all, a game. It's not so very different from what you counsel the BBS members to do - every time you post.
"Your reluctance to post the film is merely further confirmation. "
No, it was to prevent another TAS pissing contest/d**k measuring contest. But I see now you're determined to have that contest.
You can speculate all you like about that sortie. But I don't know why you're that bothered. The only thing that mattered was that it was an even contest between two sides. How does my flying have anything to do with it? It doesn't matter if I got 1 kill or 5 kills or 10 kills... it's all irrelevant to the topic under discussion. The skirmish I mentioned
was evenly matched, at least to begin with. Indeed, on my second sortie I was chased by about 4 and did get killed - I've already mentioned that. So the "milkrun/unopposed/vulch" theory doesn't hold water. When the defence had ALL blown their alt to deal with a single plane, they had no reception committee to deal with my incoming squaddies. Now, does that make it an uneven contest? Was that the fault of the map? Was it my fault?
Nice hero worship, and nice name dropping, Mr. Toad. And now with Nopoop leaping into the fray, I see it's turned into another TAS/BK joint op, of whose enjoyment you have spoken so enthusiastically in months gone by. Maybe I will meet some of you at a con. I've already met some, but the rest won't be hard to recognise. The Mutual Backslappers Society will be the ones with the funny handshakes.
...and the ones who walk into the con room with one trouser leg rolled up!
