A question: how do you manage speed during dogfight ??

[Benrizz]

Hi all,

Yesterday night, I took part to a very very long (especially for me) and large SIM dogfight where Spit were confronted to BF109 over Dover.

I had a very hard time, basically average score was 7-8-9, I had only 2 wins (that i got at the very very end) Arrrgggg. I was in a BF109 F4 which could have been an excuse if my fellow teammates would have underscore as well (wich was not the case )

One reason of that underperformance is that dogfights were occuring at very low speed. And I didn't manage to get in.

Afterwards games were far better ( I was in the average score ) for me as dogfights occured as let's say normal speed which is FULL WEP.

But even in those next games I was confronted to, let say, ACEs, who did manage their speed far better than me. (It changes from the IA)

So my question to you is:
How (when) useful is it to reduce your speed during a turning dorgfight ??

Because I well understand that when you are reducing speed you are also reducing the radius of your turn which is good , but you are also increasing the amount of time required to make a full 180° turn which is not good

Do you have an idea??

EDIT : Currently I only reduce my throlle to O-10-20% when I try to ge my opponent overshoots me, but I lost a lot of maneuvrability