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Old 05-12-2008, 06:58 PM
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Well my two cents not beeing an ace of any kind (and really rusty right now waiting for inforamtion about BoB )... When in a dogfight I realize that you seldom think to much but just "go with the flow". Still - I think that this is what I use most in a dogfight with evenly matched turn 'n burners:

Beeing chased by some less experienced pilot I find the scissors rather good (matched alternating hard turns in opposing directions). If you are low on e anyway, chop the throttle hard and make him overshoot you at the right moment. Then climb rather fast (to keep manouverability) in the opposite direction as you will never catch him (beeing low on e) and turn around after a while for the inevitable head on pass as he will swear and come back at you. Resist the head on chicken race, get some horizontal separation and and do the normal "turn into him before merge" to gain the upper hand etc... Resist pulling to hard if possible as he/she probably has an energy advantage - for "this round"

Beeing chased by some more experienced pilot in an evenly matched plane I find that doing rather "soft" course alterations for while the best option if there is some distance between you (to not present an easy target while keeping the energy up). Then at the right moment when the persuer is a bit "off track" a sudden hard turn at maximum G hoping that he/she does not understand immediately that you are not conservning energy any more... After that trying to get back on his/her six as the "lock" is hopefully broken...

/Mazex
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