Ty shane

[Anaxogoras]

Thank you Shane for shooting me down repeatedly last night.   It's a pleasure to fight someone of such a high caliber who can push his merges so aggressively and perform such expert vertical reversals (those of you who say you can't hammerhead in AH are wrong).  As I hinted last night, there may be plenty of people who can shoot me down, but there are few who can do it so quickly!   It got me to experiment with stuff that's different from my usual approach, and yeah, most of the time you showed what was wrong with my experiment in 5 seconds, but that's how you learn.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to more fights in the AvA.  It's a shame the Finnish-Russian war doesn't attract more players, but that's likely what happens when the only American aircraft present is the under-performing P-40.

[Oldman731]

It's a shame the Finnish-Russian war doesn't attract more players, but that's likely what happens when the only American aircraft present is the under-performing P-40.

The La5 and Yak-9T are just a bit tricky to learn, but they're among the best fighters in AH2 (particularly the La5).  Folks really should give them a try; and this is one of the great maps of the game.

- oldman

[Shane]

It was fun.  For the most part I was fortunate in mirroring your merges and weaseling out of some shots. I saw you and oldman sitting up top watching me and TSO go at it in that 5 min rolling scissors (wish I filmed that one) - thx for staying out; I saw the warning to the p40, too.

I like the FinRus set up and it usually draws out the real Finns.

I still think the best film was the shortest one, but with us rolling canopy to canopy, it just looked awesome as it was occurring.

http://www.speedyshare.com/235160814.html

I have most of the other fights filmed too if you want them.  I only chopped throttle on one merge out of all the fights - I generally don't chop on a nose-nose merge (I might chop on a bounce or in a BnZ situation to drop behind and stick.)

[Anaxogoras]

Oh yeah, that was where I was hypnotized watching you through my right window and failed to throttle up in time.  I can see from your film that after stalling out I ended up in the exact opposite of direction of where I would want to be.

[Plawranc]

Daaaaaaamn Wtg shane

No offense gavagai but u got PWNED big time

[Chalenge]

Gav looking at your flying makes me think you have trouble keeping your eye on your target?

[Anaxogoras]

That's a real possibility.  In the 109 it's darn near impossible not to sometimes lose the bandit in the canopy framing.  A lot of the time in a lag pursuit I know where a guy is but can't see what he's doing!