Originally posted by Zygote:
I take off from field in a heavy Typhoon full fuel and droptanks. Just after takeoff I spot a Bish D11 attacking a IL2 on the deck. I hit Wep and attack the Jug, we go vertical and then eventually after a series of passes where I score some hits, we go flat turn until I kill him.
I kill the same pilot half hour later again in Typhoon v D11.
The next day I'm killed prolly 10 times by the this pilot, I don't kill him once. He's in a 10 vs 2 and gets 9 kills. What variable has changed?
He's flying an N1K.
And here's my guess as to what happened here. Judging from the description you gave of how you fought this pilot in the P-47, you used the Typhoon's superior flatturning capabilities (yes, it actually can flatturn reasonably well with speed) to defeat him. His mistake was attempting to turn and use the vertical against, apparently, an aircraft that was better at it than his was.
Later, when he grabbed a N1K, you probably attempted to fight him
exactly the same way, now playing to the strengths of
his aircraft and not yours. Naturally you died for it... again and again and again. Why should this come as surprise to you? At slow and medium speeds, the N1K usually outturns the Typhoon. It'll also outroll it and probably outdive it from from slow speed up to medium speed, though in my experience the Typhoon easily outaccelerates the N1K at medium to high speeds. The N1K certainly retains E better at all speeds and likely suffers from less parasitic drag.
So how should you have fought the N1K? Because the Typhoon bleeds E much faster than the N1K, and also because it accelerates better at medium to high speeds, the best strategy is to get the fight as fast as possible, then turn inside the N1K for a snapshot or two. When you get down to medium speed doing so, you should still be able to accelerate away in a dive.
If you stuck around and died after getting slow, he deserved to beat you.
-- Todd/DMF
