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Old 05-12-2012, 02:19 PM
6S.Manu 6S.Manu is offline
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Originally Posted by ReconNZ View Post
Hi Manu

Yeah the reason i raised the original post in the first place was because this 109 actually started just lower than me. i came onto him and we had an initial first pass, at which point he began to climb, he climbed away from me, then turned and engaged. After 2 or 3 repeats of this, he was much higher than me,.
How much lower? But above all what's your speed? Was he faster than you?

I asking this since when I engage an enemy at my altitude I'll pass 30m under him (without pointing his plane so that I can avoid stupid headons) and my objective is to build the required speed for an Immelmann turn since usually I'm climbing at low speed.

In that way usually I almost keep all my energy while most of my enemies will make a 180° flat turn, bleeding most of their energy.

From there if I'm in the better climber I can climb away easily.

Do you remember his and your initial manouvres?
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Last edited by 6S.Manu; 05-12-2012 at 02:23 PM.