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Originally Posted by reflected

Just now I shot up a Hurricane head on, then I started climbing away (I had E advantage) . I trimmed my E-3 perfectly, 2400 RPM, full throttle, climbing at 300 kph. By the time we were over France the Hurricane got within firing distance and shot me down.

What was I doing wrong? I obviously made a mistake, because the Hurricane was notorious for being slow, and sluggish, like a grand-piano with a Merlin.

Thanks in advance.

If you're playing the B&Z game, which you should if flying 109, what you're looking for is to make enemy spits and Hurris stall, because they'll follow you on your climb after your dive on them.

You do that climbing after the pass at full speed, radiators 1/4 open and turning slightly to the right up to the point your plane is about to stall. In that moment you deploy flaps and keep climbing, always watching not to stall and applying rudder to keep the plane flying and turning to the right, if the enemy plane follows you he'll stall and you'll have a clear position on his 6 if you then you close flaps and either turn or do a Hammerhead in that very moment. If the enemy does not follow you you'll have your E-advantage back and therefore keep your victory chances at 100% again.

Radiator and speed configs recommended before are my own of course, I'm always playing with the radiators in my plane in order to squeeze its performance to the maximum.

What you have to keep in your head is that your climb must be maintained at 45º - 50º degrees minimum and in some cases you'll need to pull the nose of your plane even higher than that because what you're looking for is to gain the maximum vertical distance to the enemy plane and the minimum horizontal distance at the same time. Not to say that in order to be successful with this tactic you need the E-advantage at the beginning of the combat, of course, if not they'll get you on your climb.

You just need to practice and feel the DB "beast".