You're putting words in my mouth that I haven't said.
Are you seriously going to tell me that the good pilots didn't know where their strengths lay and wouldn't want to try and use them in order to stay alive?
Yes there were given patrol altitude and tasked with escort duties as well as fighter sweeps and other missions. Sounds like you are the one who is forgetting that all of the fighter pilots hated being tasked with close escort? And why was that? because they knew they were being forced to fight in a situation where they couldn't use their strengths of speed and superior climb rate. There were slow and vulnerable. Once engaged do you think they didn't try to get the upper hand as soon as humanly possible? The 109 had several advantages over the Spit 1a and Hurricane and the pilots who survived would have tried to use them the best they could. I am yet to read about a 109 pilot who regularly flew round in circles 50ft of the deck at 250 kph and lived as you see in a dogfight server.
What I wrote was in response to the original posters request about tactics used by blue (CLOD pilots not real world pilots). Low and slow you are much more likely to die. Higher (than the enemy) and/or faster than your enemy you have more chance to win the fight and live. Higher doesn't mean 4000m higher, that would be ridiculous, I am speaking in terms of energy that can be converted in order to keep their advantage and ultimately win the fight or disengage at will and ultimately live to fight another day.
In short having a lower or equal energy state than your opponent is never a good thing and should be avoided.
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