15.07.2008, 12:20
Well I'm about to pass my two week mark in the server.
Shot down my first friendly last night (FOX). Was a sad occasion, I came down in a Hurricane seeing a blue team all over FOX's tail. No other enemy in site, so I went to clear it... nothing peeves me more than running to a friendly with some guy hot on my six and they just fly by and keep going (sometimes, 2 or 3 friendlies will fly on by), and I didn't want to do this.
As it appeared I would be too late, I decided to fire a burst in front of the blue's nose, and warn him that there was someone on his six. The first burst was too late and fell behind him (still not too good at angles, or dogfighting in general). The second burst was right on; but he kept on FOX. A third burst was sent, but before I could react the blue broke right from the leftward turning fight and FOX, wounded but in the air, was right in the path of the burst. I must have hit with the second burst, cause the blue was trailing gasoline, but I lost him as he dove and climbed in a much faster plane; right before FOX went out of my cockpit's bottom left corner, I saw an orange spark denoting a cannon hit that I knew was mine. Then I got the message "FOX killed." It was too bad I didn't even get the guy who I was trying to. Flew the rest of the night with a negative score.
My victory for the night of note was a Spitfire with German markings. He'd been wreaking havok on red team and I came down in my own spit. Almost shot down another friendly who decided to cut me off and try to get the kill off me, but I ignored him and got a confident shot off. Hit the pit and wing joint and knocked off the left wing of the spit. I was out of ammo, and decided to head for home to try and negate my negative score. I was jumped by a FW-190 moving at an insane amount of speed, and tried my cliff dance, which worked to get me within landing distance of the base; I jumped a cliff one more time, dropped flaps and gear, cut throttle, and he came over the cliff after me at full speed. Fortunately Red AA let into him, and his one burst overshot me. I got on the ground and then ruefully, I crashed when my rudder failed and I went off the edge of the odd carrier like airfield (which I'm not a fan of, for the record).
My only other victory of note was against Flying Circus, who had been killing me all night; He took off as I started a bombing attack run in a Spitfire with a full bombload, and decided to nose up and fire at me. So I dropped my 250's and noticed he was probably going too fast for my 2 second delay, and I was right; he was going fast, fast enough to intercept two 250lb bombs in midair!!! It was amazing, I wish I'd been out of pit to see it, but the deep warming sensation when it said I'd FINALLY killed Flying Circus was well worth it. Of course, after dropping my 500 on some hangars and running for home I was shot down by, well... Flying Circus :S
And that was that...
Shot down my first friendly last night (FOX). Was a sad occasion, I came down in a Hurricane seeing a blue team all over FOX's tail. No other enemy in site, so I went to clear it... nothing peeves me more than running to a friendly with some guy hot on my six and they just fly by and keep going (sometimes, 2 or 3 friendlies will fly on by), and I didn't want to do this.
As it appeared I would be too late, I decided to fire a burst in front of the blue's nose, and warn him that there was someone on his six. The first burst was too late and fell behind him (still not too good at angles, or dogfighting in general). The second burst was right on; but he kept on FOX. A third burst was sent, but before I could react the blue broke right from the leftward turning fight and FOX, wounded but in the air, was right in the path of the burst. I must have hit with the second burst, cause the blue was trailing gasoline, but I lost him as he dove and climbed in a much faster plane; right before FOX went out of my cockpit's bottom left corner, I saw an orange spark denoting a cannon hit that I knew was mine. Then I got the message "FOX killed." It was too bad I didn't even get the guy who I was trying to. Flew the rest of the night with a negative score.
My victory for the night of note was a Spitfire with German markings. He'd been wreaking havok on red team and I came down in my own spit. Almost shot down another friendly who decided to cut me off and try to get the kill off me, but I ignored him and got a confident shot off. Hit the pit and wing joint and knocked off the left wing of the spit. I was out of ammo, and decided to head for home to try and negate my negative score. I was jumped by a FW-190 moving at an insane amount of speed, and tried my cliff dance, which worked to get me within landing distance of the base; I jumped a cliff one more time, dropped flaps and gear, cut throttle, and he came over the cliff after me at full speed. Fortunately Red AA let into him, and his one burst overshot me. I got on the ground and then ruefully, I crashed when my rudder failed and I went off the edge of the odd carrier like airfield (which I'm not a fan of, for the record).
My only other victory of note was against Flying Circus, who had been killing me all night; He took off as I started a bombing attack run in a Spitfire with a full bombload, and decided to nose up and fire at me. So I dropped my 250's and noticed he was probably going too fast for my 2 second delay, and I was right; he was going fast, fast enough to intercept two 250lb bombs in midair!!! It was amazing, I wish I'd been out of pit to see it, but the deep warming sensation when it said I'd FINALLY killed Flying Circus was well worth it. Of course, after dropping my 500 on some hangars and running for home I was shot down by, well... Flying Circus :S
And that was that...