Can the jet's be competitive?

[Desode]

The jets can when a fight but you have to take the fight to high altitude. Also remember to take the fight vertical. Use the clouds too if you got them.
DESODE

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by towman

Forget turning with the jets, Dive-shoot-climb, rinse and repeat, if you are a good gunner you can be competitive, if you suck at shooting fly the yak-3 .

YEEEAAHH!!! Great choice

Originally Posted by mattd27

Well I'm figuring on sticking to props, I was just interested to see if you can have the same level of success with a jet.

However, I might do an experiment just for a couple of days, seeing how well I can fare in one. Could make for some fun flying?

Best thing to do with the Me 262, Me 163, and even that He 126, is attack bombers quick and fast. That's their main objective as I see it, turning with others, for me is absolutely forbidden. You want something that can hit the bombers in one strike to take them out. BUT I prefer the props myself.

[reverend66]

Oh now I get it
And I used to be an auto mechanic *hits self in head with shoe*

[Raw Kryptonite]

Originally Posted by reverend66

The Komet being rocket propelled was it possible to control speed like in the game? I know they were defense aircraft against bombers in thier real life roll in WWII. It seems to me once you light the engines you are just along for the ride. Perhaps they had the capability at the time to control the amount of fuel injected into the rocket, but I doubt the amount of engine control in game was possible. Anybody know how this beautifull little suckers engine worked?

Check this out, from Dogfights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfEErfeZcLw

[reverend66]

Very cool, thanks man I'll rent the whole episode. Kinda makes you wonder if any of those Nazi scientists survived to design more aircraft...

Damn you Coors & your Nazi loving ways!!!!! (I'm a Lonestar fan myself)

[BadByte]

Im sure they did, the scientists where in high demand,US had the operation paperclip to get them working for the US, would be strange if the Russians didnt have a similar operation going on at the end of the war.

[Raw Kryptonite]

Originally Posted by reverend66

Very cool, thanks man I'll rent the whole episode. Kinda makes you wonder if any of those Nazi scientists survived to design more aircraft...

Damn you Coors & your Nazi loving ways!!!!! (I'm a Lonestar fan myself)

Now THAT is interesting. LOL
I like a little Shiner Bock sometimes, but I prefer Abita Amber from LA.

[Wissam24]

Well they only had about 5 minutes powered flight time, so that was the window they had to take down bombers. Whilst they could climb like no other plane, on the descent, they had precious few seconds to aim because they were going to fast....they were kinda useless in the war.

[Arnow]

Well about those jets in dogfight/team battle.

I tried Me163 and Me262, not He162 yet cuz i didn't unlock it yet.

Me163 is really more competitive in dogfight than Me262. While the former is able to take turns at (very) relatively acceptable rate, the latter is unable to do such a turn in less than 30 seconds at least.

So my opinion is that, while, of course, not the most adequate plane for dogfight, the Me163 can be quite a good deal of fun when mastered. I could shoot down 2 or 3 prop planes when I used it last time.

I tried dogfight with the Me262 yesterday. I was unable to follow a single plane (essentially because i didn't have enough distance to do so, i was staying in the heart of the dogfight) and crashed/was shot down 11 times ^^...No score for me!

[mondo]

Originally Posted by mattd27

I just unlocked a couple of the jets (The ME 163B and the ME-262-la) and they're kind off cool to fly-briefly. But I'm wondering if the jets can keep up competitively with the other planes in multiplayer.

Now we all know that they probably have the worst turn rate in the game, but does the amount of speed compensate for this?

Don't turn then? The Me262 flown to its strengths will dominate. Attack from above, dive, shoot and then zoom climb up. Never compromise your speed in that plane.

If you see a bunch of n00bs in there little turning battles then just line them all up, you can easily predict what they are going to do if there cutting the lawn underneath them as they turn. Unless they try a rolling reversal turning planes are easy to predict.

In WW2 planes, especially later models you shouldn't be turning anyway, props and jets