Sounds like a good maneuver to me
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... Ive done this one from time to time, I'll be RTB'n Either no fuel or combo no fuel, ammo Low on the deck and ill see a plane coming in from way high directly to my 6, ill watch him till about 1k-800, and drop flaps, cut throttle, and pull back hard to almost a vertical, then push the nose down hard while throttling up+wep and retracting the flaps back in, its kept me alive quite a few times, and on occasion Ive killed a few.
It almost works like a chute to quickly slow you down and makes his convergence on you even faster causing him to overshot you or gives his plane a dirt nap