Not sure I follow...are you saying folks get fighter stats by egging gv's with combo planes?
No.
I'm sayin some (not all) guys will fly literally a "couple" sorties in fighter mode and get get a fantastic KD, Kph, Kps score and Stop flying in fighter mode the rest of the tour.
To protect that fighter score, they will fly the rest of the tour in "attack" mode.
They will shoot down mostly planes and very few if any ground targets.
If you're gonna shoot down planes, it should be in fighter mode.
Its that way with bombers for example, you only get credit for hitting ground targets.
There are guys who can take down a formation of bombers in 1 or 2 passes,yet if you're defending said formation and you get lucky enough to shoot one of these guys down you will receive no credit for those kills. Ground only.
Again its just my interpretation of the word "attack" as it is proposed in this game to mean "ground attack", otherwise it just might as well be in fighter mode.
Imho the attack mode is being misused.
Just like in the bombers, if you happen to get a ground kill, yaay! If you happen to shoot down a plane? Tough luck, it doesn't count.
If you should choose to check out the stats, I think you will find quite a few guys with a few "fighter sorties and with correspondingly low scores and their "attack" scores will show 150 air kills and 3 ground kills.
I don't think the "attack" mode is being use as its description might imply.
I don't think I can make it any clearer than that.
No big deal, just sayin.