If you feel confident enough in your ability to not get caught during a furball. Reduce throttle by about half until you actually need full and or WEP to climb or run away. Then place your head on a constant swivel watching everything. You will find the majority of players roar around at full throttle or even WEP all the time while in combat. If you are at half throttle this becomes obvious like night and day. Your worst enemy in most engagements is your own E bank being too full and veteran ACM players allowing you to kill yourself with that.
What you may find in the beginning of this exercise is the fight will pass you by. Even diving in at half throttle will gain you speed but, in many cases you will get to the dinner table late. Still, how often have you dove in on WEP trying to take advantage, and been back in the tower scratching your head because a well known name shot you down for your trouble. That E state you wanted to judge was your own more than his.
Though, when attacked, especially from above, your lower speed will allow you more control over the outcome of your evasive. Including if you even need to towards the end of it, going WEP suddenly and performing an E state changeup of your own. Or slowing down rapidly enough to magically pop your flaps out. Ever hear the old saw about going slower around a circle gets you there faster?
Ask yourself honestly. Which E state is really getting you shot down? The muppets in the DA can help you with the more aggressive aspects of that, along with the Trainers in the TA can ground you in the a,b,c's on a personal 1 to 1 basis. Spend an hour with a Trainer on this subject and you will have better outcomes in the MA. Spend a week in the DA after that with the muppets, and you will be a holy terror in the MA. Ever fight pepprr in her pink spit?
