Right aircraft for the right job and a few stupid questions

[King Jareth]

I've been finding the La7 a sweet ride, super stable and easy to throw about in a dogfight. But when I do get on someones six I just cant take planes down with it.
The Spifire Mk IX seems to need a bit more care to fly about but has plenty of guns when you need to take a shot and there's always the Hurricane. Bit slower manuvering but its also pretty stable.

My learning process so far has kinda gone like this
Learn to fly the plane.
Learn to look about.
Try to do both at once.
Fly while keeping looking at one specific target (I'm not getting too bad at this...ish)
Actually shoot people down.

[trk29]

I kept getting out turned by the spitfire flying this plane. I do like flying it though.