How close have you come to blackout?

[InfiniteStates]

As some of you may or may not be aware, blackouts, or at least the pre-cursor to them, actually are in the game...

You may have noticed eye-shaped black fuzziness around the edges of the screen, and also your can hear some heavy breathing. I've noticed this before, but not until the intensity of edal's tournament flying against SubaruGaz did I actually think "sh*t...I might actually lose control of my plane".

I was cruising just below the cloud cover, scouring the ground for that little tell-tale spec. There! I dive, but mis-judge it and the point of interception is quite a way behind him. So I slam on combat flaps and throw my spitfire into a hard left bank, with rudder for extra oompf.

Then the screen edges start closing in, leaving me about a 20% strip of actual visibilty across the middle of the screen and the breathing gets really heavy. That was the closest I've come to a full blackout in my BoP career.

Has anyone actually blacked out? Or has anyone managed to achieve the pre-cursor to a red-out?

I've a horrible feeling I'm going to need to re-learn some techniques (or reduce elevator sensitivity further) when the patch makes these things easier to do....