Originally posted by Oldman731
I agree with this entire post.
There was a brief period, some years ago, when I paid attention to my stats. Didn't take long before I noticed that I was flying to improve my stats, rather than to have a good time. So I stopped engaging multiple enemies, stopped heading for targets that were higher than me, landed every kill I got (whether or not I had gas and bullets left), and quit trying new maneuvers just to see how they'd work. One evening I came to the unpleasant conclusion that I was now flying like the people I'd made fun of for years. So I stopped looking at my score sheets, went back to having a good time, and have thoroughly enjoyed the game ever since.
- oldman
Yep that's the key.
No one is really dying, planes are free. Quit worrying about your score, dive in and have fun.
If you like 109s, then fly it the best you can. If you die, so be it. Who cares. You aren' t really dying.
I fly the 38G most of the time. It's not uber at anything but it turns ok. When I dive into the pile of Spits, LAs, N1Ks etc. I know it's going to be big target number 1.
But I'm not really dying and the longer I can last in the fight, the more fun it is.