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Post by SYN_FlyingRoyal on Nov 23, 2011 17:53:09 GMT
hey guys im in jersey, my internet connection here isnt as good as home. so i'll see how online is if not ill play with you when i get back in a week or so. Im still flying, taking an SE5a up in the career and trying some bnz i find it fifficult because planes dont break off etc etc, i find im slowly climing in a left turn when the stall, they go down but i completely miss, any other ideas? They just seem ti stay in a left turn below me...just lower, and i cant seem to make any distance...or very little. there any little tricks to try? I dont have a problem staying above them all the time but i do get frustrated. I will learn. Hope to see you online soon, wont be there for the kots tomorrow night im affraid, however will be next weeks!
all the best
craig aka royal
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Post by SYN_Per on Nov 23, 2011 18:09:30 GMT
No worries about KoTS mate. We are having a Thanksgiving break, soo you will be back in time for the big push!
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Post by SYN_Speck on Nov 23, 2011 19:02:40 GMT
Flying offline, it's difficult flying a heavier/faster a/c vs better turners. The AI specialize in turning very hard, and as you say, it makes them difficult to hit if you're trying to keep your speed up. But it's good practice to keep trying. Just try to make swooping passes at them, keep going straight through as they turn, extend a bit, then reverse (vertical turn is best, horizontal turn bleeds a lot of energy) and come back at them.
If you feel frustrated trying to hit them and are tempted to start turning with them, to get right on their 6 and blast away, well go for it if you want but remember that at that point you'll be ceasing to pracitce for online - because that situation won't arise online very often. Since for me I'm really not interested in flying offline at all, to me offline is nothing but practice and exersize for online. The AI do not fly like humans at all of course, so there's hardly a point in trying to work on tactics. It's easy to stay higher and faster than the AI. So when offline I'm always just trying to figure out ways to work on my gunnery, basically. I try to set up situations where I'm making a fast pass at a slower, turning target since this is the most difficult gunnery situation online. And as it happens, the AI will usually cooperate by flying slowly and turning a lot.
It sounds liek this is what you're discovering.. just keep at it, look at it as pracitce, try to anticipate where they are going to be a few seconds in the future and get yourself in position to shoot them there.
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Post by SYN_FlyingRoyal on Nov 24, 2011 7:12:51 GMT
cheers speck, once again great advice , when you mean a horizontal turn u mean like an immlem or what i call a stall turn? as in up verticle rudder over come back down?
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Post by SYN_Repent on Nov 24, 2011 8:13:09 GMT
great advice speck.
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Post by SYN_FlyingRoyal on Nov 24, 2011 9:37:46 GMT
p.s i just realised how bad my typing is, i should really proof read stuff!
ill try flying again later, i just love the se5a is all, also im thinking about flying with a brisfit as i have never flown it before, if your on the same level as another aircraft that can turn better and minimally slower or quicker, whats your best options? do you scissor? try and break away?, if you break away your going to end up getting lower than him. Or is there a rule never to engage unless your higher?. I thought id try and see how far i can get in a career without dying, i think it'll help my online fighting, instead of throwing away kills if im actually trying to stay alive...especially for kots and the vintage missions.
i have flown 3 missions on my career with an SE5a, an airfield attack where i blew up an alb taking off with a bomb, then i sprinted for home as there was 6 after me. Second i took down a 2 seater. the last mission i dog fighted for 2 alb 3's for over half an hour trying to get them down. i got decent shots on both but ended up getting wounded i thought it best and escaped for home....I think my patients at flying for half an hour with them was good. I even dragged them over my lines to dog fight with them so that i knew if i was hit i could at least land in allied lines or at an airfield. My SA is getting there slowly.
Hope all is well with everyone. Once again thanks for the advice. It is endless and i appreciate sometimes i ask stupid questions...but alas that is the only way i shall learn.
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Post by SYN_Repent on Nov 24, 2011 10:27:32 GMT
generally, in the se5, speed is your friend, height is important, but dont be afraid to trade this off for speed if you are in a fix, but if your gonna dive out, then make sure you do dive, dont mess about, nose down, maintain engine revs around 2200rpm, and keep that nose below the horizon until you are safe, if you so much as put that nose above the horizon by the barest fraction, all your speed will bleed off and whatever is chasing you then has the advantage.
once you are well clear, begin the slow climb to altitude again.
i would only ever try scissoring in a dire emergency, like, perhaps an alb is right on you and you have no height to trade for speed, but even then, whilst doing it look for an escape window and then nose down and run like fook, if this happens though, you are doing something wrong, this is the kind of thing you really dont want to happen.
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Post by SYN_FlyingRoyal on Nov 24, 2011 13:22:21 GMT
cheers dude, sorry when i was talking about scissoring i was talking about planes that are generally TNB but are not as good as the predator that is after them, for example ur in a brisfit against an alb or a dr1 etc etc
basically im trying to find different manouvers for different occasions in different planes instead of me being in a tnb plane and just trying to turn onto his tail etc etc, i have been in many cages before where i have been in a horizontal turn where neather the plane i am following me or i am gaining anything , what do i do then break off? or in some instances the enemy is gaining on my behind...
sorry im talking about TNB planes not the se5a
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Post by SYN_Repent on Nov 24, 2011 13:44:33 GMT
climb climb climb
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Post by SYN_Per on Nov 24, 2011 14:33:11 GMT
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Post by SYN_FlyingRoyal on Nov 24, 2011 15:47:06 GMT
cheers guys much appreciated
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