What to practice?

[evilerny]

I see that you are all flying the Battle of Britain Campaign but what aircraft should I practice on my off time? Spits, Hurricanes, 109's, etc? Seeing how I pretty much suck at all of them, I need the practice.

[:FI:Wolfhound]

were in hurri's and mk 1 spits at the mo,give them a bash ,
dec

[evilerny]

Ok, sounds good, thanks. Ok edit: I was looking at Il2 compare and I was looking at the stats for The Hurricane Mk 1 and the Spit VB (the closest comparable fight) to the Bf-109E4 and while the Spit had some advantages over the 109, the Hurricane is "beat" in most aspects.
Now please correct me if I'm wrong but (focusing on the Hurricane) the Hurricane has a slightly better turn radius than the 109 but at very slow speeds making it an easy target for faster moving fighters. Plus to bleed off that much airspeed to use the one and only advantage over the 109 may work for a small time but to maintain that would be suicide. So, other than staying in pairs and covering the tail of your wingman (a must) are there any tricks to beating the 109?

[:FI:Wardog]

Yep make sure your first shots count

Wardog

[:FI:Noter]

Ah, yes, our beloved Hurricanes. It's a bloody miracle England didn't end up speaking German. We've gotten better, but the surest way to deal with the 109 is to avoid them, leave 'em to the Spits, if that doesn't work, make sure you're over friendly territory so when you have to bail you'll get picked up...

[:FI:McBiggles]

What to practice...depending on 'sea-state' the backstroke is an elegant way to make for shore. Bit tough in the vest right enough. You'll have to kick off the boots too. If it's calm you can 'crawl' for hours.
What? Oh flying practice. I shouldn't worry too much about that. I never seem to fly for very long.
Takeoff, landing, crashes, that sort of thing will see you through.
We are getting better as Noter said. We have however few illusions anymore about what we can do in these machines so we are trying to work to their strengths. Well, we're still trying to find some of them.
But when we do! It'll be ime to go to Spits.
Hope you can join us.

[evilerny]

I am actually very good at all three skills you listed and I perform some pretty amazing tricks:

Takeoff Trick - "The survivor"
Crashing Trick - "Changing your pants mid-flight"
Landing Trick - "360 Face-Plant"

[AnaKonda]

Well, when flying planes armed with light machine guns only, you need to get familiar with gunnery with them.

Hurri I is still easy, due its mg's are in tight packs of 4, but dweebfeuer I has them spread all along wing, so you are very
dependad of gunnery and convergence.

Theyre still both good match for 109 E1-E4 where again spitV is already overkill vs them in capabilities

[:FI:Heloego]

Welcome to the boards, evilerny!

I'm sure you'll do fine, unlike the rest of us.

Join in on Friday nights (8:00pm Central) and bask under the direction of the famous but unrenowned McBiggles.