never thought stick stirrin was good reversal
I unloaded the airplane for speed after a short left break when I saw the bandit in guns range because I expected I would need corner velocity and some really high G. (If I lived through the guns pass) As it turns out I didn't need the speed, I needed to decelerate. I went zero throttle and nose high and the bandit almost immediately went past my 3-9 in a right turn. I was thinking the bandit would continue the right turn. I was planning to continue my nose high right turn into a high yo yo when the bandit reversed his turn and broke left across my guns. I just kicked some top rudder to get the boresite above the bandit's extended velocity vector and squeezed the trigger.
The bandit could have easily controlled the situation by going nose high instead of hard right when he recognized the rapid closure. The flat turn put me on the bandit's belly side, out of sight and did nothing to slow the bandit's horizontal motion.
My favored technique against a flat scissoring bandit and rapid closure is to go nose high and roll 180 to put my lift vector on the bandit's line of travel and then pull for another saddle if he is staying with the flat turn.
The following is a demonstration of the technique.
Flat Scissor counterAs for Fudgums being the bookend victims in that short film thats mainly a product of the fields being 50 feet apart in that terrain. I certainly wasn't choosing who I was shooting at.
