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Originally posted by Aaron_GT:
Do you have any good tips, Cuda. I've taken the P38 up as a ffighter bomber many times (I am a buff pilot at heart) but I've only been successful a few times flying it as a pure fighter. Once an Fw 190 gets on my tail and I've been run down to low altitude there seems to be nothing I can do to shake it, and then engine fires and an unhappy end seem to follow quite quickly.
At first sight of a 190 on your 6, bring him in to just outside of effective firing range and then reef a hard turn. Do another one back the other way, and then once more but put it into a tight, climbing turn. 190s do not like climbing turns.