I notice people asking for films showing examples of good flying. For a number of reasons it is hard to find good film collections. I have some suggestions for newer pilots on how to build their own film collection.
First of all film every engagement you go into. Then look at the ones where you entered an engagement where there were several planes flying for your side and for the opposition and where you survived for a while. It helps to rename a film when you save it to give it a descriptive name or just tag it as a useful film. Now in the film viewer don't watch yourself but click on another pilot and watch the engagement from that pilot's point of view. Look for pilots that are doing well, who got several kills or who survived when outnumbered. Figure out what acm they were using, when and why. What was their strategy. How did they use their plane's strengths against other planes weaknesses and how did they compensate for their own planes weaknesses. In general just watch and see what you can learn. Oh and turn trails on and watch the engagement again at a slow rate of speed (I like 25%) for as many times as you like. Also watch to see what views the pilot is using and when. Watch one pilot and then watch an opponent they are engaged with to see how they are both reacting to each others moves. If you have trouble surviving for even a little while you might want to take up a plane and just circle above an engagement and film. Give yourself enough altitude that you are safe from being shot down. If you do get shot down just try again.
Another thing to do is if you want to see good flying in a particular plane find a pilot who is good in that plane. Ask to join them and if they agree then type .join followed by the player's name (typed exactly as it is on the roster or radio conversation) into the text chat buffer. Now you will see them flying from the pilot's point of view from their own cockpit. Film the engagements that you ride along for for later viewing. Perhaps you might even get the player to explain on vox what he/she is doing and why. Lots of players will be happy to help you. One thing to be aware of is that many of the absolute top aces fly rather strangely. They are experts at exploiting every quirk of their particular airplane and do odd things such as putting themselves into vulnerable positions in order to coax other players to engage them. It is probably better to find a player that is maybe not the best but still very good and flies more conventionally to learn from.
A source of flying footage is youtube where you can find films in youtube format (find a youtube grabber to download and save them or just watch them as many times as you need to online). Youtube doesn't have the features of the aces high film viewer of course but this is a source of films and there is quite a bit there.
Films are very valuable learning tools so building your own film library will help you to improve much more quickly than just learning from trial and error. Oh and google to find and read everything you can on how to fly, this will help you to understand the films you are watching.
I hope this helps.
