To master the la7 you need to use all its capabilities. It's not the best turner, but don't stress the turns. In a multiplayer fight, if you can't beat an opponent in 2 or 3 turns, you might get a kill, but someone else is even more likely to kill you. It's usually not a good strategy.
La7 is near the top in turn rate, and it rolls very well and you can barrel and jink it easily to avoid being hit. In free-for-alls, you should do well if you can kill quickly and evade enemy fire. One of my favorite BOP evasions (since the FFA is always near the ground) is do an ascending barrel-roll, checking 6 the whole time, keeping careful watch on the bogey's guns plane and rolling to avoid it. Once you get enough altitude, you can turn and dive, making them overshoot.
And here is where the la7's real greatest power is: it's the fastest non-jet in the game. If you can't make the opponent overshoot, you can throttle up, neutral the stick and continue the dive, if they try to follow just fly past someone else. They won't catch you but whoever you fly past will catch them.
In a 1 on 1 combat vs a spitfire, stay near the edge of blackout level as long as it's a turning fight, you can match a spit's turn rate, while making it keep its own turn radius high. Be wary of its lower radius, if your circles are off center, it may be able to line up a shot, especially if it zooms vertical. What I usually do is some form of rolling scissors, which starts with nose-to-nose turns, and rolling so you're not in front of it at each pass. Then the planes will be competing to see which one can fly slowest at the top of its barrel-roll, and the la7 stands a better chance of winning this, making the spit stall and fall out of the maneuver.
Talking about Sim and realistic here... I don't know if these tactics work in arcade
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