how are these 109s turns 180 with out penalties?

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by recoilfx

Brit planes are easy to pick up. They are more stall proof and more stable gun platforms. They also have better tracers, gun sight, and rear views.

109s are harder to master. They are much more unstable; they can't follow turns; gunnery is also difficult. But if the pilot can master 109's energy potentials, they are the superior planes to fly.

Have you actually flown a Hurricane, arguably the best fighter we have available until people let us use the IIa? Unless the target is 3k above you, or you have your cockpit constantly open, you can't see the deathstar on your six.

I have hopped in a 109 and the view from that thing is 10x better than a Hurricane.

And trying to suggest that the gun sight and tracers are making up for the deficiencies against the opposing speed, dive, firepower, and damage resistance is a little disingenuous.

You CAN win against 109s in the I, Ia, and Hurricane, but unless you're pilot of the year or the 109 pilot makes several mistakes, you need specific conditions (mostly height and surprise).

Maybe that's enough for people, for the game. But I'm getting awfully tired of 109 pilots trying to assure us red pilots that there's nothing different, they're just better. At least admit you've got advantages over the red pilots. There are plenty of very good red pilots who do very well. But I seem to notice that all the people I know who don't like to play games unless they rack up a score tend to be moving to the blue side of things....

EDIT: Sorry to sound a little pissed off. It's not directed at anyone in particular. We have a very hard time dealing with 109s that are flown by average pilots, let alone skilled ones. And all we seem to get for providing the targets for the turkey shoot most of the time is some guy on teamspeak hopping into our channel to blast German march music at us? The game is hard enough. I know it's supposedly in 'good fun', but after struggling to compete and no one flying bombers because the blenheim falls apart if you SPIT at it, what chance do we have. That's why I've turned to flying escort missions almost exclusively if ANYone will fly the blenheims during the hours I'm in.

[recoilfx]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

Have you actually flown a Hurricane, arguably the best fighter we have available until people let us use the IIa? Unless the target is 3k above you, or you have your cockpit constantly open, you can't see the deathstar on your six.

I have hopped in a 109 and the view from that thing is 10x better than a Hurricane.

And trying to suggest that the gun sight and tracers are making up for the deficiencies against the opposing speed, dive, firepower, and damage resistance is a little disingenuous.

You CAN win against 109s in the I, Ia, and Hurricane, but unless you're pilot of the year or the 109 pilot makes several mistakes, you need specific conditions (mostly height and surprise).

Maybe that's enough for people, for the game. But I'm getting awfully tired of 109 pilots trying to assure us red pilots that there's nothing different, they're just better. At least admit you've got advantages over the red pilots. There are plenty of very good red pilots who do very well. But I seem to notice that all the people I know who don't like to play games unless they rack up a score tend to be moving to the blue side of things....

EDIT: Sorry to sound a little pissed off. It's not directed at anyone in particular. We have a very hard time dealing with 109s that are flown by average pilots, let alone skilled ones. And all we seem to get for providing the targets for the turkey shoot most of the time is some guy on teamspeak hopping into our channel to blast German march music at us? The game is hard enough. I know it's supposedly in 'good fun', but after struggling to compete and no one flying bombers because the blenheim falls apart if you SPIT at it, what chance do we have. That's why I've turned to flying escort missions almost exclusively if ANYone will fly the blenheims during the hours I'm in.

Wolverine, I used to fly RAF exclusively, then I switched to the 109 for the challenge, I have flown for both sides.

I am not sure why you are offended though. I have stated that the 109 is a better plane in the game at the right hands, so if a red pilot can consistently out fly me I know that he is a better pilot (not comparing to Spit IIa).

Brit planes ARE easier to pick up, but 109 has more potentials to exploit, for the reasons I've already stated, i don't think I am wrong in any of that (Yes, I know that the Hurricane doesn't have great rear view, but you must have realize the 109 suffers the same?).

If you think that 109s are that much superior and as easy to master, please, come fly with us. As you may have noticed, red pilots almost always outnumber us blue pilots on ATAG. We are not born to fly one sided after all.

[SQB]

Regarding the original post... Sounds like you were versing AI or playing on singleplayer. For some reason AI can roll at light speed and have all sorts of physics-breaking maneuvers.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by SQB

Regarding the original post... Sounds like you were versing AI or playing on singleplayer. For some reason AI can roll at light speed and have all sorts of physics-breaking maneuvers.

That makes sense, the 109 is very difficult to master, except for our friend AI

[Attila]

in my opinion the FM and DM is more worse after the last patch! Before in a 109 you had a good chance to outclimb a Hurri and after the Hurri was stalling or turn away you had the option to dive on the Hurri! After the patch there was no chance to do that!
The DM from the Spit is overmodeled i think! I have never made it to shoot a Spits wing away, what is no problem to do it on a Hurri. The 109 is made of paper on this DM! Thats what i think about it!

[vnvv_stea]

Oleg: Pilots win dogfights. Not airplanes. If a pilot is not particularly good, regardless of a plane, he’ll always have a sinking feeling that something somewhere is wrong… and not everyone is willing to admit that the fault lies within.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by vnvv_stea

Oleg: Pilots win dogfights. Not airplanes. If a pilot is not particularly good, regardless of a plane, he’ll always have a sinking feeling that something somewhere is wrong… and not everyone is willing to admit that the fault lies within.

Hehe I remember that, probably around the time the P51 was introduced with the AEP . iirc




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[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by vnvv_stea

Oleg: Pilots win dogfights. Not airplanes. If a pilot is not particularly good, regardless of a plane, he’ll always have a sinking feeling that something somewhere is wrong… and not everyone is willing to admit that the fault lies within.

Pilots win dogfights. Dogfights don't win wars.

[vnvv_stea]

Originally Posted by Attila

in my opinion the FM and DM is more worse after the last patch! Before in a 109 you had a good chance to outclimb a Hurri and after the Hurri was stalling or turn away you had the option to dive on the Hurri! After the patch there was no chance to do that!
The DM from the Spit is overmodeled i think! I have never made it to shoot a Spits wing away, what is no problem to do it on a Hurri. The 109 is made of paper on this DM! Thats what i think about it!

+1

[recoilfx]

Originally Posted by Attila

in my opinion the FM and DM is more worse after the last patch! Before in a 109 you had a good chance to outclimb a Hurri and after the Hurri was stalling or turn away you had the option to dive on the Hurri! After the patch there was no chance to do that!
The DM from the Spit is overmodeled i think! I have never made it to shoot a Spits wing away, what is no problem to do it on a Hurri. The 109 is made of paper on this DM! Thats what i think about it!

Attila, I hope you are being sarcastic.

If the performance of 109 did worsen, then I have no idea how lot of us are still out climbing the brits

Were you flying the e3 or the e4? They have worse (e4 has the worst) climb rate, but they are still better than the brits (minus the Spit IIas). If they are on your six already, you won't be able to just climb away unless they are bad shots.

Also, remember that players' skill improve, the same people who shot you down 6 months ago must have improved their gunnery and flying skills.