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Originally Posted by KeBrAnTo
I suppose that in this situation either wins the best pilot or the one who makes less mistakes in that particular dogfight, regardeless the FM of the plane.
Piloting a better plane (or better FM if you want) only makes things a little bit easier from my point of view. If you are face to face with a guy who is good piloting his plane you're gonna have to do your best in order to shoot him down regardeless if the FM of your plane gives you a little advantage over the other plane.
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You say "less mistakes" but if both the pilots are "identical" and as experten they don't make mistakes on their own then they are forced to reach the plane's limits, because, like you say, they have to fly at their best.
And it's in this case that the FM matters, where the better plane wins.
After all speed and service ceiling were the most important things for a fighter pilot (he wanted to fly faster and higher), and these are plane's feature.
I'm sure you know that an experten will not jump in a furball without analyzing the situation, he will avoid dogfights because an ambush is by far the better tactic. He will gain tactical advantage before the attack. If the players are both experten there will be a long fight at distance to gain advantage (both energetic and positional) because both will not risk to been fired at.
During the training session in my squad I can be an experten in the red team but if the cadet in the blue team is closely going to follow the orders of an expert pilot then he's untouchable... probably he will not kill me but surely I will not have his head... because he was flying in the better plane (better climber or faster)...
Because of this the training sessions are become quite long and boring... you know the result since the start of the mission: the team with the better planes wins. We start the fight at 2km and after 10 minutes we find ourselves at 8km.
So the plane's performance IMO are the keys in a fight between experten.