Tips on maneuvers

[Moggy]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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Doc, find this book..Robert L. Shaw: Air Combat, Tactics and Maneuvering. Very good read!

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I would also recommend the Korean War air tactics book, "No Guts, No Glory" by Frederick Blesse.

[jf1981]

My advice is U'll learn fast & simple tactics in dogfight with external chasing view F6 and complete screen ctrl+F1.

Those are not realistic but is makes it easy to learn dogfight tactics and how to aim in front of the plane by guessing its trajectory, sometimes in sharp turns you need to fire at least 100 meters in front of him.

1 : "Flying" and 2 : "aiming at a fighter in sharp turns" is very difficult to learn with the limited view and cockpit always on.

But if you fly with full screen mode and ext view on you will undetrstand how it works and with practice you'll be able to use the same tactics in full realism mode.

The issue is that after some pactice, you'll see that you need to guess and imagine the situation in your mind and with available visual indications, you sometimes fire an imaginary spot because the plane is not yet visible in the sight, but it will hit the plane.

That demands practice.

Regards

[617Squadron]

Also, check out the 'Dogfights' series of videos on Youtube. The series goes into the tactics used by pilots and explains energy fighting really well.

Speed and altitude are life....

[kimosabi]

Originally Posted by 617Squadron

Speed and altitude are life....

Speed is life, altitude is life insurance.

[617Squadron]

^^ I'll take that...

[ATAG_Doc]

Gunther Rall suggest the best tactic against a P-47 is to shoot it down. I'm pretty sure that is universal.