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Originally Posted by Binnies
Thanks for the tips Blackdog.
Do you have any advice for fighting spitfire? A lot of times I tend to end up with them on my tail and me being unable to shake them.
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This is a long discussion and mostly has to do with air combat tactics.
This is just some generalized advice, if your aircraft can fly slower than the opponent you should exploit that by turning in horizontal turns (just roll to the side and pull the stick back a bit).
However, if you have the faster aircraft (which is the 109), your turning circle will be wider: you can't turn fast enough and if you slow down to turn you give up your speed advantage.
In this case you need to use the so called "out of plane" maneuvers. This means turning with a bit of vertical maneuver.
The most basic one is to use a sequence of high and low yo-yo maneuvers, alternating between the two. Instead of turning with the target you roll to the side but not completely and pull up on the stick. This means you are climbing and turning at the same time: you will get slower and be able to turn better, but by climbing you gain potential energy. Then, you roll a bit more so that you are diving and turning when you pull the stick back, to convert your altitude back into speed, and level off with the target. This allows you to make a turn while keeping some energy reserve and it's called a high yo-yo.
The low yo-yo is the same but opposite: you start with a diving turn, then level out by rolling and pulling.
The high one is useful for staying behind a slower target without having to reduce your throttle settings, the low one is useful for "cutting ahead" of a faster target and closing to guns range.
All this is very generic and simplified mind you, there are tons of books on air combat tactics, i'm just giving you a small sample here
My advice would be to do a search for a PDF book called "in pursuit", which deals with simulator flying and how to apply real world tactics to our game. It was very recently posted on this forum but i'm in a bit of a hurry and can't dig it up right now, look for a thread in the main page titled "a good read" or something like that and you'll find it.