Very Satisfying!

[bw_wolverine]

I just had one of the most satisfying flights I've ever had in a combat flight sim tonight on the Syndicate server. And yes, it was in Cliffs of Dover.

Flying a Spitfire Mk. Ia, I did a sweep of the french coastline before returning to england. Radar spotted a flight of Stukas heading for Manston.

Intercepting them, I did a high turning climb before diving down on them, peppering the rightmost plane of the six aircraft flight, tail gunners wailing at me all the while. Not a scratch!

Diving down and then rolling over to come back onto their tails, I chewed at the plane I'd previously marked, sprouting fresh trails of fuel and radiator coolant. He fell away from the pack! Turning my attention to his wingmate, I was about to open the guns when I noticed that some of the tracers flying past me were coming from behind!

Quickly, I throw the DeHavilland two speed prop into coarse and roll, diving away in a tight high-g manoever. The sneaky 109 that bounced me came with. Down and down we spiraled towards the ocean, with me watching my RPMs the whole time and pleading that my gambit would work. As we near the cold channel waters, the 109 breaks out of the turn, engine sputtering. Success! He's over-rev'd his DB and has no more hunter left in him. Now he will be hunted!

Bringing my Spit back around in a rudder assisted turn, I open up the prop to give myself a bit of power and roar onto the 109's tail. Before he knows I'm there, I've layed bullets across his wing. He turns and tries to climb away, too close to the sea, but his wounded bird won't cooperate now. We twist and writhe above the waves until he crosses my sights once more and a strong two second burst from my eight browning guns opens up his oil and smoke starts to fall away from his wing as a fire has started near the tip.

Pulling up and away, I lean over to the side and see his canopy open and a nervous pilot bail out, only a few hundred feet above the waters. I salute the warrior and head for home.

A successful landing later and I'm in the flight officers mess, telling this exact tale.

(All events happened during my mission. Wonderful stuff! I experienced no bugs at all during the flight. When the game is working right, it works really really well. I'm not going to say it doesn't need work. It does. But that was simply a wonderful sortie. The flight model, the management of my aircraft, the light playing on the dash, everything. Wonderful.)