Slap, no offense taken. The two 110s sound like they don't know how to work together. It should be a good match unless you caught them flat-out NOE with no room for error. It wouldn't really be dweeby because the combination of turning, amount of ammo, huge firepower and rate of fire means they just need an average opportunity to at least disable you. And the F6 can't really run away unless it keeps them under its heel. The F6 just isn't so easy to fly to ever be the greater factor than the pilot in a fight. It doesn't earn "dweeby" in at least the majority of cases. You actually have to make an effort to make it work.
I'm not convinced. I don't think dweebiness is situational. No other plane thrives so well on furballing while demanding so little of the pilot. It's sure that "dweeb" gains a bandwagon effect, but that's just a case of any "good cause" having some fool supporting it. It doesn't void the fact that it really is dweeby often enough.
Now, I'm not out to convince anyone that the spit is something you should feel guilty for flying. Have at it.. Fly what you like and like what you fly. I just don't see it as anything but a crutch though.
The most you can say with any credibility is that the XVI gives a slight edge and sometimes gives pilots a chance to recover from mistakes that would kill them in another aircraft.
That's pretty much says it all, as far as your objectivity goes.
The XVI doesn't have a great K/D because people who fly it fly it that bad. And/or they don't care about dying.
newbies flying the XVI should consistently be able to beat veterans flying other planes.
They do.
if nothing is a challenge for anyone in a XVI except overwhelming numerical odds,
Not what I said.
Everything else being equal is the way I was putting it.
I was gonna just stop there but.. Did you actually say
Let's run a little experiment. Fly nothing but the XVI for a week and see if you can double your k/d ratio.
First, I don't trust you to be objective, so your end of it (your K/D variance) isn't interesting. It's not even a proper setup, there's too many uncontrolled variables. But I can say I've flown the 16 and I can dodge pretty much anything.. I can easily double my K/D and definitely my K/T, and most likely up my hit%, compared to flying the Ta152 which I know pretty well. But my previous K/D would have to be from a "control" sample, and one week is too little a sample. And then we'd have to show films of the whole thing to really proof the validity of the results and that's just not worth it in any way I can imagine. The XVI is as dweeby as any other in the planeset. If you can't see that, it's your problem. Good luck.