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Yeah, a lot of newer players especially in the mig 21’s will try to pull a tighter turn if they get behind an enemy and they won’t notice their speed take a dump. Making it super easy for someone to come and mop them up with a gun kill. I’ve noticed that when I fly the Mirage 2000, it can give me a false sense of security in a dog fight due to letting me pull some insane AOA and dump all my speed. At least in the better top tier jets, we can get it back super quickly, however your basically a sitting duck until you do.

It really shows in the standard of play, because if people were playing their aircraft properly there should be no way an F-5 is able to be this competitive. It’s less that I’m good and more that the standard of play in WarThunder sim is just impressively bad.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy Seeing MiG-29s on the deck gave me heartburn. I remember when I got the Viggen (first PD capable plane I was able to get my hands on), I played it at 7-12km and just lobbed Skyflashes and was basically untouchable. Idk how someone could get a plane like the MiG-29 and just so happily squander its performance by playing it so haphazardly

With jets like the Meteor that take a while to accelerate, it’s best to try and maintain as much speed as possible because getting it back is such a struggle. So if you find yourself needing to slow down to avoid say, overshooting, it’s better to pull up and over in what’s called a high yoyo, because you’ll bleed speed on the way up and open up some separation between yourself and the target, then when you come back down you’ll gain back what you lost and be able to just cut inside their turn for a gunshot or run them down with your energy out of the dive. It’s a bit too complex a topic for a RU-vid comment really, insane amount of variables not least of which is what the opponent is flying and it’s capabilities Vs your own. What works with some opponents might not work with others, and sometimes it might be more because they out fly you rather than outperform you, it can be hard to tell the difference sometimes. Best thing really is to grind out and fly what you fight so you can experience the same situations from both sides, makes it easier to work out what aircraft can and can’t do.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy thanks for the detailed reply! I’m going to keep trying to get better at fighting in jets. btw, I’m the one who shared this video on /r/WarThunderSim, hopefully everyone else finds this video as useful as I did.

Another great video many thanks

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Also, the F5 is still flown by my country's air force. I sat on that cockpit as a child at an air show around 98-99

@sebastianilabaca3295 I missed my chance to see the Turkish F-5 display team last year and I’m still gutted about it now, never seen one in real life before.

I used to do the same, with a HAT on my stick for leaning around the cockpit. On the mouse I rebound mouse look activation to LMB since it wasn’t getting used for anything else, and RMB to resetting the position of the HAT’s leaning. Definitely adds another layer of mental complications but it was so second nature to me when I moved to head tracking that I felt like my left hand didn’t know what to do with itself lol

Depends on the plane, sometimes it really limits your AOA and makes things like steep dives difficult to recover from, but sometimes it also reduces how much bounce there is when you unload the stick after a hard turn, which makes aiming a lot easier. I generally do use it for the Mirage 2000 and Phantoms because the turn performance is close enough that the precision gain is worth it. But in things like the Viper I’ve been going manual.

Yeah, you see the engine temperature in the top left? More = bad, flares and your afterburner look the same to a missile, you want to do whatever you can to lower your IR signature, works the same in all modes.

Touché

The flare thing is because Gaijin for some reason decided chaff clouds should be lockable targets rather than something that disrupts an existing lock. It can sometimes look like there’s a long line of enemies in tight formation but it’ll just be where someone spammed off a mix of countermeasures. Most people prioritise flares over chaff so if you see someone flaring, expect to see radar contacts in the same area, which will always appear hostile because chaff clouds can’t have transponders for team ID lol. Another common problem is if there’s a furball, or even just a 1 vs 1 you come across; if you lock one of them you might’ve got the wrong one in the first place by accident, but also if one passes in front of the other from your perspective, the lock can jump - if you don’t catch it happening… 👎

I don’t have it to see from the other side but I’ve heard from most who have it that the radar is really unreliable. I tend to try to defeat Fox-1’s kinetically if I can’t drag the range out so I’ve not really had much chance to gauge the notch susceptibility.

Do they differ other than the engines? I couldn’t justify buying the 5C

@@Bullet4MyEnemy The F-5E is bigger/heavier, with more internal fuel for the more powerful engines, larger leading edge extensions that increase the wing area, and the radar. But the A/C do get more countermeasures. The main effect on flight performance is the E ends up faster with a better sustained turn rate. The A/C are a little more nimble at high speeds when your controls start stiffening, since they're lighter and the control surfaces are unchanged. For the few seconds you'll have before blacking out.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy The F-5E has larger wing-route extensions than the C on top of the better engines. In WT, this results in decreased instant turn ability, but a better sustained turn and/or better energy retention when hard-defending.

I have noticed the C is a huge bitch to stick with in the Mirage because it just doesn’t slow down, so that makes sense. Well, it doesn’t… But it does explain my experience in game lol

@@Bullet4MyEnemy Elaborating a bit, the E maintains speed notably better when it is in the mid-low speed regime. However, the C will have at least 1 extra G of instant pull at the high speed regimes while also not losing much more speed than the E (considering thrust difference)

Have a play around with the sensitivity sliders, in WarThunder they act sort of like input lag - 100% means everything you do is translated in real time, 0% makes it take a couple of seconds for input to be applied over time. 100% is obviously better but a lot less smooth without a lot of experience. I have it set around 75%, but what I recommend is gradually upping it by 10% or so each week to help you adjust.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy Useful information right there, thank you.

I don’t even have the BIS yet so it’s going to be a long slog, I think I’ve got about 30k to go on the Frogfoot but with only the SMT it’s quite painful…

@@Bullet4MyEnemy only 2 planes away now i can feel the Mig 29 coming in me 😫

Joystick lol, only thing I use the mouse for is aiming Mavericks

I leave it on, I kept finding myself bleeding a ton of speed and actually wing stalling in the F-5E, which isn’t usually something that happens to me. Generally I’ll catch the buffeting cues to ease off but for some reason I was either missing them or the jet’s bugged and they weren’t happening. Leaving dampening on stops you pushing it that far so at least for my flying style it helps more than it hinders. Definitely a case of deciding if it’s worth it on a plane by plane basis.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy Yeah, I use it in a plane by plane basis too. The only thing that bothers me using damping, is that trim doesn't work, and I find my nose always pitches down, no matter what aircraft I am flying, and I have to constantly compensate with slight back stick. Obviously it doesn't matter in a dogfight, but its annoying when flying around in SAS. I have bug reported it, but never heard anything back. Surely, in real life, you could still trim an aircraft with stability augmentation on?

@@chrisgardiner6771 Yeah it’s always bugged me too, but not as much as the uselessness of auto levelling, literally always lose alt using it so I don’t get the point. I tend to trim for level flight with whatever my current weapon set is and for a specific speed, then just flip between dampening and manual depending on which is better for a given situation. Like when hauling bombs with the Phantom, or hitting ground battles with the A-10, I’ll use manual for the transit flight and dropping the bombs or using the Mavs so I don’t nose down when I’m trying to concentrate on other stuff, but then I’ll flip to dampening for air to air or trying to line guns up on ground units because it makes for smoother adjustments.

the SAS Auto level is not to keep you flying in straight line. it’s works so that the wings are both level.

Nah, I don’t see the benefit for people unless they have the same HOTAS set up because I don’t really have any controls on the keyboard or mouse apart from aiming Mavericks and using targeting pods.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy It may be helpful just to understand what countrols would be necessary, no matter what HOTAS you have. I personally use a Virpil set with an extra control pad and even I don't know what I should bind

@@TheArcticFoxxo Fair point, I’ll consider it

@@Bullet4MyEnemy Thanks man. Looking forward to it and more

Warthog HOTAS, TFRP pedals and TrackIR5

@@Bullet4MyEnemy whats the use of the TrackIR5?

@@leone8147 It’s head tracking, I can move my head to look/lean around. Frees up a hand for other controls.

Unless you have the same HOTAS set up as me it wouldn’t do you much good, got literally everything apart from chat commands on my stick or throttle. Just a case of adjusting things constantly until you’ve got it all in easy reach and you can remember it, took me months to settle on a configuration I was happy with, and as more things get added I find myself tweaking things fairly often. Like apparently chaff and flares will be separate keybinds soon so I’ll have to rejig some stuff to make that work for me.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy I believe HOTAS is the pilot stick? Unfortunately i play with Keyboard and Mouse and its hard to get into sim with it but ever since i started watching your channel i have learned a couple of new things about sim so it will be easier to adapt. I firstly have to find my keybinds though. Thank you

@@panagiotismastoras4902 Hands On Throttle And Stick is what it stands for, so it’s a two part control set up 👍🏼 I started with mouse and keyboard too, you might have to go back a long way but there should be videos on the channel, I think I was limited to props back then though and it was a long time before we had missiles or supersonic jets.

@@Bullet4MyEnemy Well i am currently grinding for the F16 and in about 10 hours i will have the Skyhawk. Is the Skyhawk a good aircraft to fly in sim? And if yes in what missions should i focuse on? (Sorry for the many questions. You are just the only one that is replying and thank you)

@@panagiotismastoras4902 I’d probably use it as a base bomber or use the Bullpups to hit ships on a map like Port Moresby

General Kenobi

My biggest complaint with CCRP is that if you nose up above the horizon line your steering line disappears so it’s complete guesswork getting the alignment right. I know sim isn’t a priority, but if they’re going to bother with these HUD modes at all, how is it even possible that they get to the live server with so many glaring issues? And things like the anti-ship missiles not working on an event plane… Cumulatively people must’ve spent hundreds of thousands if not even millions of hours grinding that thing out and when they get it, the main selling point doesn’t even fucking work…

@@Bullet4MyEnemy Yep grinded my ass for this Tornado and the thing has its cockpit map going trough the RWR lol,the radar can badly see any ship and cant see air craft carriers withou even talking about the missile diving more than a torpedo or hitting the most uselles ship module...sometimes i feel like gaijin wanna make ppl give up on SB so they can end this mode once for all...

Yup, 100% The number of people asking for everyone to PVE when they’re flying the best fighters in the game is baffling

@@Bullet4MyEnemy It's getting incredibly frustrating when I enter a game, kill a couple people and they cuss you out and leave, ending the match early bc they wanted PVE.

@@cinurwe Yup, been victim to it more times than I can count. They’re short sighted arseholes who can’t see or don’t care that they’re literally killing the mode, always going to kill them and deny the PVE requests.

The pve people are likely farming to sell accounts. SA server is easily the worse. They run matches in shifts. Isnt this part of the reason gaijin raped sim economics? ... Is it wrong to sometimes want to go to the farming servers and liven the place up with pvp?