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Originally Posted by Kurfürst
Basically, I agree with you. I don't think the positions that far away from each other either, its just difficult to form thoughts accurately in text on a discussion board. No, nothing is automatic, happening all the time as a certain results if you do something wrong, though the probability is high enough to warrant a warning in the pilot's little book.
OTOH I believe Pilot's instructions report a plane's characteristics faithfully. I guess we can agree on this.  |
To be fair to you, you haven't been the main culprit withe the regulations thing.
I feel that there is a strange attitude to using combat reports and pilot's recollections as evidence.
They are the only primary source available on the subject of how these aircraft performed, doing what they were designed, tested and regulated to do. Fly in combat. To ignore them is missing the whole picture. Numbers and physics are equally important. To ignore them is also missing the whole picture.
I read a LW account by one of the top pilots. He said he managed to turn inside a spitfire by flying and managing to maintain such a position that only the slats on one wing were deployed he shot it down, by the same token I've read Brian Lane's account of a 5 minute dogfight with a 109 where he rode they very edge of the stall, behind a 109 who's slats were deployed and who was suffering aileron snatching. He got behind after 2 full 360's, the 109 rolled out and dived away. I believe them both.