Help dogfighting (and moderating speed)

[MaxGunz]

About moderating speed, you might want to try an energy management approach. If you're flying too fast to make your best turn, the first thing you do is zoom climb until you've slowed to a bit over best turn speed and then do your turn on the same angle you're zooming up, flying a tilted-down loop. Once over the top you come back down, regaining the speed you stored as height in the zoom lost in the dive. You don't have to come out turned 180 either, you can roll-turn while headed up or down in the zoom or dive.

If you want to accelerate a highly wing-loaded plane (like FW) at low speed best, let it drop 50m-100m in a shallow descent while you pick up speed. The drop unloads the wings, you have less induced drag while you lose height.

Roll turn: You don't have to do a banked turn to change direction, even 180 deg. You just zoom up or down 30 deg or more and roll your canopy to point where you want to go then pull back smoothly to be on track. See how fast you can reverse, every other direction change is as fast or faster. It's the fastest way to change direction and it conserves energy.

So why play turn-fight with a slower plane that slow turn better than yours? Build up a speed advantage, turn it into zoom-height he can't reach and higher than he can point his guns and -then- maneuver to bounce once you have the upper hand.