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Originally Posted by MaxGunz
When you clip words out of context and slap on "never say never", all I can say is that the context provided a big qualifier that you seem to have missed, "A follower that doesn't roll with you will overshoot".
Perhaps I should have added "unless you're a clueless dweeb and jerk around perhaps with your flaps down after you get low and slow" to the end.
In the original, the enemy has lost sight of you. At no point do you rely on losing sight of the enemy though keeping him in view may be impossible at some point if you're playing full cockpit. If you're good enough to pull it off, you should be good enough to get away once you have, considering that your enemy wasn't good enough to counter your move, part of the qualification in that same complete sentence.
ps - you don't keep heading down. You half-loop to be heading in the opposite general direction that you had been traveling to both increase separation and not hit the ground.
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Eh it appears so that I misunderstood your second example completely?
Your first example I have heard of it being used in similar way as Robert Johnson did.
A fw190 sees a trailing spitfire in rear sector.
Fw190 makes maybe an initial
gentle turn - sustained turn with rudder.
Spitfire adjusts his course slightly to follow
Then the fw190 rolls and adjusts his course slightly either to right or left (compared to his original straight course). FW190 has to try to minimize loss of speed in this manouver of course.
Spitfire cannot roll as fast obviously so he cannot mimic the movements exactly
spitfire has to make a turn of somekind (even a gentle turn) to keep following fw190 closely
Then the fw190 just keeps increasing distance patiently until he's comfortable
