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Originally Posted by Laurwin
never say never 
escaping from high altitude with diving, and keeping escapping will bleed all your stored energy (potential energy altitude) for sure (to drag etc...)
your speed will slow down into your max speed level flying. (at the correct altitude)
in the end you rely on losing sight of him and ending the chase. This is not even defeating your enemy actually.
enemy has now control of dominating altitude and place of airspace, the enemy has defeated you in fact.
It does work in your spitfire vs thunderbolt example though! That can be admitted readily. |
When you clip words out of context and slap on "never say never", all I can say is that the context provided a big qualifier that you seem to have missed, "
A follower that doesn't roll with you will overshoot".
Perhaps I should have added "unless you're a clueless dweeb and jerk around perhaps with your flaps down after you get low and slow" to the end.
In the original, the enemy has lost sight of you. At no point do you rely on losing sight of the enemy though keeping him in view may be impossible at some point if you're playing full cockpit. If you're good enough to pull it off, you should be good enough to get away once you have, considering that your enemy wasn't good enough to counter your move, part of the qualification in that same
complete sentence.
ps - you don't keep heading down. You half-loop to be heading in the opposite general direction that you had been traveling to both increase separation and not hit the ground.