Davey, we are in the same squad, you can ask me, Tilla Sirloin anything and we can help you out as much as we can.
Anyways, when I'm in a turnfight, I use the rudder on a few occasions: when I need to do a quick turn left, then back right, that always helps. When I'm at the verge of falling off, 38s tend to dip their wing, like every other airplane in the game, I always use the rudder there to fight back the stall. When the 38 does stall in a vertical, it begins to spin; you can slow down the spin by using the rudder and aielorons.
Thats only the few occasions that I use the rudder.
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