First in order to be able to boom and zoom you have to fly against people that know how to stay in air and not crash. As many hits as it takes some times to bring a aircraft down it may take you a few passes before you shoot them down, granted they don't get shot down by your team mate or crash because they stall.

I dont want to piss in anyones wheaties but all the soviet planes are garbage in this game except the LAs.....in my humble opinion of course. :)

I met him as well. And that's totally true. Even if you are not on his 6 but going to get on his 6 he is going to bail out.

Just a pathetic gamer

What game are you playing? Because in my copy o BoP, the Soviet Planes: I-16, I-153, Yak-1, Yak-9, and Yak-3 all fly how they should. What do you have the sensitivity at? That might be your problem, because when flying the planes I've mentioned, you need the sensitivity raised at least 3 notches from the very top. It gives you a hell of an advantage, and better controls. Plus, none of those planes are hard to control.

Just some advise. You like what you like :)

i think this is stupid just use speed btw the i16 is in my opinion 1 of the worst planes ever built (although it looks cute)

I think it looks ridiculous :P (no offense to any I-16 lovers). It's a lot of fun to fly though. You easily outturn anybody. Until they figure out you're slow it's a joy. In arcade it's just as fast as any other plane though, as far as I know. I can imagine this kind of sucks. Just go one step up to Realistic :D.

THats the stupidest, most no-life sig i have ever seen...

This, hopefully, will be fixed in the patch.

I think that I have only come up against thess highly maneuverable bi-planes in Realistic with it's absolutely horrible lock-on mechanic which really eliminates a lot of the advantage of boom and zoom.

The only aircraft that really annoys me online is the IL-2 and its variants. They're just stupidly tough: the 30mm cannon on the BF 109 G-6 destroys a Stuka in one hit, but literally overheated before it was able to kill an IL-2. I come up on the tail so many times, nailing it 5 times more than is necessary to kill any other plane, and yet it just keeps flying. And if it finally does crash, it doesn't count as your kill. Basically broken online.

And of course the rear gun is stupidly overpowered as always. Ironic that a 30 mm gun that would kill a heavy bomber in 2 hits is useless against a IL-2, yet the tiny 7.62mm machine gun in the back of the IL2 can take down a fighter almost instantly, on realistic and simulator. Ridiculous, and it makes strike and capture the airfield modes pointless to fly anything but an IL2 in.

I find it hilarious how alot of player defend russian aircraft and their abilities, when everyone knows they're hardly worth fighting a war with; accept for the late model ones. Other than that the only reason why russian aircraft, like any other russian item of war, is that they're only good in numbers. And another thing that makes myself laugh, is that how people still claim that "boom and zoom" tactics are good in arcade. They may be perfect for realistic, hense the name "realistic", but they're useless a decent amount of the time unless the other player makes a mistake giving you the advantage.