I’ve been trying to become a better pilot. A lot of people just say “practice” but knowledge of what to do is helpful. What else am I supposed to “practice” you show the skills in a understandable way I appreciate that! Thank you so much!
in my beginner time playing air RB, i often watched the replay of the game which contain me dogfighting somebody, if the result i won the fight, i try to figure what moves that make me winning, and if i lose i try to figure what moves made me defeated or screw my flight path
and 1 more thing, if the footage is containing me as a defender and succed reversed and killed my pursuer, i watch the replay in my enemy POV, so i can see clearly what kind of manouver made him struggle pointing his nose to my plane, honestly it worth to try and helped me a lot in the game
you can go into a custom game with a friend and dogfight them 1v1 and count how many times you win to their wins, when you win see what you did and remember that, then add 1 more person to the dogfight, so on and so on.
It is absolutely experience based. You learn what works and what doesn't. If you died, think about what could have been done better and work on it. Yes some situations are unwinnable. Everyone loves seeing a Zero above and beyond when fly the P-51.
I agree to an extent, as experience allows you to learn what didn’t work. However, no one move works. Just playing a lot won’t improve your performance until you play a lot with the right mindset like this video completely demonstrates. Knowing your A/C strengths, and your enemies weaknesses. Then exploiting them. Judging energy states, and reacting accordingly. Its a thinking mans game, and an adapting game. I have a clip on my channel with a zero that shows up high above me in a P-51K. Using the P-51’s strengths against the zeros weaknesses. He dies in 30 seconds. Nothing is an impossible situation, especially when you’re in a great a/c like a P-51 as long as you’re always thinking of a plan, and executing it. Experience of practicing with a purpose is the key! You’ll never get better just playing a lot, and trying “moves”.
@@JelqSmith It’s not running, its equalizing the energy ;). In my case, in my P-51k video, it appeared up high very close above me. I let him dive on me, knowing the zero compresses and it’s roll rate sufferers at high speed. I just put it into a slight dive and did some slight turns back and forth until he was about to overshoot. Faked a turn fight vertical for about half a circle. Dived out out as soon as he thought I was dumb enough to turn fight him, evaded some long range sprays on the way out. Extended until he turned away, then I turned back into him and shot him down in the first pass. EZ! Took no less than 30 Seconds.
@@onyourkilllist6880 Very impressive and well done. It’s funny when I’m flying away to climb and equalize the energy against a zero or something else I can’t out turn, they often try to taunt me in the chat that I’m a coward. I just laugh and ignore them, thinking nice try.
A good way to simplify this on how to get someone off u without getting killed if you’re not skilled or can’t remember all of it. In the F-104 clip where he’s chasing the more maneuverable plane, what’s killing the A-5 is that he reverses too soon. Wait until the guy on you actually pulls lead before you reverse your direction. If you do that the lead he pulls works against him, especially if he doesn’t roll well. If you reverse your turn like a madman (like the A-5 in the F-104 clip) and do it BEFORE he starts pulling lead, you’re just flying back toward his guns. That’s why you aren’t reversing a P-47 in your zero, you’re just spinning in circles and flying back into his guns over and over
I don’t play much war thunder these days (DCS warbird guy) - but your Summary of defensive rolling is illustrated well. Rolling towards the wingtips and staying out of sync with his wings are paramount 👌🏻
Please do a guide on how to fly with keyboard while eyeballing enemy behind us. I know it might be pretty silly and basic for you, but some players could use that a bit (including me). I love your content, and this episode is no different. It brings me knowledge.
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain all of this to the newb players like myself. Just started playing and especially after watching the “how to aim” video I immediately noticed a difference in the way I play and my end game score. I’m sure this video will also help to improve my abilities. I have also shared the “how to aim” video with some friends who also benefited from it. You are by far the best at explaining these tactics and also keeping the video informative and interesting.
Defyn I may be replying a year after this video was released, I recently bought the F4EJ ADTW, this video helped so much! I got to the f86 sabre on Japan within days!
I really appreciate these videos that you do they've helped me improve so much it's almost unreal. Your content is unparalleled imo, especially the death cuts 🤣🤣🤣
This is really helpful. I haven't flown for a year on war thunder and this course is refreshing everything and adding to the knowledge I already had with even more new information. Thanks!
Mutch awaited fourth installment, been getting some friends into the game and air RB, this dropped at the perfect time! This has been their greatest struggle, defensive flying.
i like the detail level of animation you brought us. you even included greenery like in 7:32. brilliant. i am not very good at reversals, even if i know some theory. getting a refresh is always good, and i never have seen a grafical analysis where you wanna be like yours. very informative, ty.
I appreciate all your videos, I'm slowly working through them while playing. Stopped playing for years, and came back a bit more excited to fly, and must say that your videos are smooth, easy to understand and extremely informative.
Damn this definetely is one of those videos i wish i watched a year or so ago, also one of the first of its kind to explain stuff so clearly, thanks for the amzing video.
I just started playing WT, I knew nothing until I watched your videos. I played for a few hours and did my best to implement your knowledge and I basically stayed on one plane the entire time. Don’t take this lightly, I do not like, comment, or subscribe on any channel but I’ve watched every video in this series to the entire extent of the time. It’s been the best series on RU-vid I’ve watched for any genre or reason at all. Thank you.
Great guide, just like the energy guide. I just wish there was a way to practice all of this somehow. Playing RB means playing for 10+ minutes each match before even getting remotely close to one of these many scenarios. If you're lucky to not mess up and get shot down right away, you get to do one of these and restart the timer. I wish I could practive maneuvres over and over until learning them so they can then be utilized in combat.
Easy solution. Don't listen to the internet trolls and play arcade battles. There's also missions against AI. Many options to get effective seat time in
@@ThaJay I disagree. The mechanics of an arcade battle practically remove the differences between flight mechanics of planes, Thunderbolts stalling out BF109s. Everyone dives to the deck and it's a massive slaughter with no strategy. Missions against AI run on the same physics as arcade battles.
Awesome video. For the longest time with props I didn’t understand how defensive flying worked and figured anyone on my six had me. Thanks to the times I overshot people, the video of AdamTheEnginerd in his f8f, and this video, I realize the fight isn’t over until it’s over. Never give up in props.
I’d like to point out that especially in jets, Crew Mastery is important to get the critical lead. If you main that jet, you better splash those 1.x Million Silver Birds. Because often you will find that even you do everything right, the last degrees of pitch or the critical second of G load is missing due to lack of crew skills. But then again, he is absolutely correct. If you are defensive, there is no point in relying on your sick plays, it’s about you get him off your tail and deny him the kill shot. Every second counts, you can dance around, he might not hit you, you can try a reversal you do so good, but in the end someone else will pick you with an missile. It’s better to not get defensive at all and remain in control.
I learned how to do this by just playing a lot of air rb and now I do it ecatly like in those clips. What helped me a lot with defensive flying was binding keys to elevator so that I can use mouse to see where the enemy is and what is he doing while at the same time maneuvering.
That box diagram with the 109 and P-38 was pretty damn helpful, I guess now it’s all down to how close you are to the ground and whether the dude, either through luck or skill, hits the shot 👍
I main the F-5C and it‘s most dangerous move is just to rate fight you to death, if flown right you can just turn for as long as their AOA allows to… other than that: totalöy agree with you 😂
@@PerriThePlatyPilot Actually I don't know if I agree with the rate fight. It's not bad but it doesn't have the thrust to maintain that much speed, at least not like a mig19 or f5E. The f5C can also pull some insane aoa which will bleed speed in any plane. I'd say it's better off in a nose to nose fight
@@phat3330 No it doesn't, you have to let go of the S key for once in a while (that's why the Level 5 players never get to do this). It's pretty much the same as the F-5E, you keep it at Mach 0.90 - Mach 0.99, the F-5s generate a ton of Thrust at those speeds (even the C model). Yes they do pull AoA at times but that's not always the case and it shouldn't be. The Airframe is amazing, one of the best, it's also very small to hit, so turning correctly makes you a very small target wich is desirable when you're on the other end of Russian 30mm Cannons and stuff. It's a balanced plane, but get below that magic number and the F-5C struggles to get it's speed back and will get caught left and right, and as Prof. Defyn already said once: A slow Plane, is a dead Plane.
@@PerriThePlatyPilot Yeah it's at those speeds I meant, an f5E can get that speed back alot easier and doesn't get below that speed as often. I still think a nose to nose fight is better in most cases but against a deltawing you should of course get into a nose to tail cause those just fall out of the sky hahah
What I learnt from this is there are far too many variables to take into account at once and try to control in split seconds and the enemy pilot is probably better than you so you will lose.
This is really helpful especially me knowing what planes are good and bad cause I’m advancing the French tech tree and the planes are really bad at turning at r2-4 but this has been helpful for me to know tricks to get the position in the fight
My favorite reversal is in the f86 Sabre when you have enough distance to turn around because I love head ons and instead of turning back into him I power away while he burns his energy turning around since that thing is just raw power for its br
My method of dealing with headons (works better at lower speeds) is to turn away to one side and do a barrel roll (that is to say an actual barrel roll, not the aileron roll falsely so labeled that was common in Star Fox). By the end of this barrel roll, at least on lower speeds, you can now turn and find yourself on your opponent's six and in fire position. At higher speeds, he has probably left firing distance, but in that case, he either has to turn around to face you, losing him energy, or he just runs away. In the worst case scenario for you, he runs, and you are still alive regardless.
I've learned a lot from your videos and from playing in general. From your videos I've learned how to fly defensively well enough that I can god fight 3 people for a short time and sometimes make at least one crash into the ground. From playing in general I've learned that my teammates would rather go to the other side of the map to get shot down by convoy AA than to get 3 easy kills that I have basically stalled out for them. I swear to God whenever I activate a wager snail gives me mouth breathing morons to play with.
I managed to pull one of these off a while ago without even really knowing what I was doing, except instead of jets it was some low-tier Russian jet with rockets vs a HE-111, I suppose it wasn’t too hard of a maneuver but, fire arrows award is always a fun thing to get lol
I was struggling with the p-38 lightning for long time but this video really helped I could boomin zoom alright but if someone got on my tail I would instantly died pretty much now not only can I survive but I can thrive
