well i learned the yoyo from (from one of these guy that posted here,... i dont know his forum name but he did a great job on teaching me) and its acctualy helped quite alot and it works really effectivly, i went againts a spit and had no problem with his turns.(I still need a littlle more practice buts its getting easy to me) Im not having problems anymore with keeping on there trail now but he told me to learn the lag roll from morfiend which i want to do tomorrow so if your in the trainers lobby tomorrow morfriend i would like to know how to the lag roll. thanks
Excellent to hear.
The lag roll....
Look up the barrel roll (this is what a lag roll is, its a barrel used to ultimatley lag behind your enemy). First lets be sure to note that a roll is useing the ailerons, and a loop is useing the elevators. A basic roll is/can be made very quickly in your aircraft without any change in your general direction/heading or speed. If you incorporate some elevator into the roll though (while also rolling slower) you can widen your roll. The term barrel roll comes from the visual of the pilot attempting to fly the aircraft down a tunnel's/barrel's inside walls - essentialy the slower your roll 360 degrees and the more you coordinte elevator input into the maneuver, the wider your barrel roll.
If you grap this principle/visual (if you're not, there are tons of great threads on barrel rolls in these forums and/or google), then the next step is applying it to combat against another aircraft, defensively or offensively (and thus why the barrel roll is a favorite, very versatile and like the yo-yo can conserve a good amount of your energy/speed).
In very basic principle what is being described to you (the left of the figure below) is to fly a barrely roll around your opponent to retain your speed but quickly get behind them again (and again, and again, until they break).
Once they break, execute either a basic high yo-yo or combine the high-yoyo with a barrel roll against the breaking attacker like below:
.... the greater the speed dicrepancy (really slow target, really fast you), the higher and wider you should make your rolls and yo-yos.
If your opponent executes the barrel roll though in defense then what you may end up in is esentialy a 3-d version of the classic 2-d sisscors with the same concept, the guy flying tighter (and likely slower) corners will edge out the advantage and gun solution first - so do be
AWARE... as much as it can be used defensively to your advantage, it can be used to the cons too, and all be over before you can blink.
