This time... yes and no.
I was 14K when RA slid up on my 6 from below. I saw him and my countryman behind, so I did some split-S's and tried to drag him in front of my friendly... who didn't get him.
The shiny 51 is a big, fat target.
So I grabbed a Spit and did what the LW wanted to do... I hugged the earth and, like a catfish, waited for stuff to "swim over". Trouble is, the shiny fish kept chasing me!
Still it was fun. Got into a good one with Ripsnort... he was 10K or so, lone wolfing. I was low and tried to climb his low 6. He spotted me and dove. I was in real trouble, because he had lots of E and was using it right. I broke hard left and down, then reversed to catch his exit. Too far for a shot yet.
He zoomed up, chandelle and down he comes again. Same thing, hard down and left, reverse... closer, but no shot yet.
He goes for it a third time, and this time when I reverse he is just close enough to follow up the chandelle. As his nose dropped over the top he got it.
That was near the ground, but it was 1 vs. 1, and the type of fight I enjoy (not because I won, because it was a bad situation I managed to do the right thing in- for once!).