Thanx for all the replies! Sharky-- email on the way.
Gospel, and all--Spit 5 is not a problem for me while driving a P51. the 5 is just too slow.
However, the The Spit 9 does give me fits, not every spit9--just the well flown ones.
Spatula, Wardog--I will have to take you up on that. I will weatch for you guys on the roster and take you up on it.
My problem with them is this, My regular moves which are good for other AC dont woirk with the spit. For example-- We merge and instead of nhard immel, I always go into a 35-40 % nose up zoom climb till I speed drops to 200MPH or so, then Ill nose it on over. This ussually gives me a great E advantage over other AC. But the spit invariably will do an aggresive immelman and then just seemingly without trouble follow me up my zoom climb, when I am nosin over he is closin fast. Ill nose down a bit to regain speed and extend, him close behind. At this time I usually just bugout anymore, at least till he gives up the chase. At that point I'll either continue to bugout, or if we are alone, I'll reverse and start again.
Either way-- I just need to learn how to beat these birds
--whooped one last night in MA. I was a little better alt and we merged nose to nose, he went for the HO and I went under and zoomed straight up. he tried to match my manuever and I was getting nervous at the top of my immel, he was at 650 yards spraying as hard as he could, but alas--no more Energy for him, I chopped the throttle, hard rudder, nosed over on top of him and let him have it at 200 yards, he was still wallering for speed. Peppered him good but not fatal. He was smokin and missing hardware and he ran for hiscountrymen. Not long I saw my name in the text buffer.
looking forward to all the training and free rides, Illm get up with you all soon, thx again!
ps-- why should I start listening to funked today?? And break my precedent?? Noone else does so I don't want to be different
[This message has been edited by -ammo- (edited 06-15-2000).]