Dogfight techniques : tutorial video

[Bounder!]

Just wanted to say really nice videos jf1981 and keep 'em coming!

[jf1981]

Hi,

That's Part 2 online.
Next one we'll be diving into team work ...

Part 2

[Rince]

Nice flying,mate!
Did you reverse your track ir y-axxis, or you always heading sidways with your head? You`re flying more inreverse with your plane than straight forward! quite impressing! At least better with track ir then in RL where they really had to turn their heads around 145 degrees to look behind!

Keep it on, good work!

[jf1981]

Hi

I'm using left hand mouse & throttle, right hand joystick.
I find it comfortable and very much usefull. Not disturbing after some time.

[mungee]

Thanks for doing these jf1981 - much appreciated!

[zakkandrachoff]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=TuipnDc7dms

do it in the p51 of il2, "dogfighter"

[svanen]

Thanks jf1981, keep 'em coming..

[hiro]

thanks

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Originally Posted by zakkandrachoff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=TuipnDc7dms

do it in the p51 of il2, "dogfighter"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YjUUT7G55c&t=2m12s

might need to go to 2 min 12 secs in . . . the forum youtube link doesn't grab the time


its in every successful P-51's repertoire, standard training. They even used it on Tigers. With .50 's

[smurf-oly]

Wow.. thanks for continuing the series of tutorials jf1981 ... it's really useful to see a dogfight from the perspective of an experienced pilot's cockpit (as opposed to from the cockpit of the plane that's being shot down) and particularly to hear the rational behind the maneuvers.

[Codex]

Originally Posted by NZtyphoon

WGG Duncan Smith, who flew Spitfires from near the end of the Battle of Britain and ended the war as a Wing Commander with 17 victories got into a tricky situation returning from a bomber escort mission to Lille:

First he was nearly flipped over by a Bofors 40mm as he was approaching the English coast...then, to add to his problems...

"Relaxing my tense muscles I looked over my shoulder and caught my breath as I saw a 109 over on my right,...and saw another on the opposite side....flogging the last pound of boost out of my engine, eased my aircraft down even closer to the tops of the waves. The 109s opened fire, first the one to the right...I skidded my aircraft to the left....the one on the left opened fire...and I repeated the manoeuvre in the opposite direction. I soon realised that each time I did this it slowed me down....There was only one thing left to do: I heaved back on the stick and zoomed up in an off-centre loop to the left....I watched over my shoulder and saw the 109 pull up after me, firing. Harder, I pressed on the stick until I felt the wings start to judder. Suddenly the 109 flicked and spun - the horizon came back into view above my head and quickly I rolled out into a tight turn....I picked out one of the 109s, also in a turn, but circling away from me." After which Duncan Smith headed back to sea level and got back to base (Spitfire Into Battle, 2002, pp 73-74)

Trying to dodge and weave can just kill your speed, so Duncan Smith saved himself at sea level by using his momentum to pull up into a hard turning spiral which the 109s couldn't match...don't think the one chasing him ended up in the 'oggin, but it might have been close.

Don't rely on those stories too much. Yes they are historical but you could play that same scenario out a 1000 times and have different endings each time, both in real life and in the simulation. I learned that the hard way over time