DCS FW190 How to Dogfight?

Thought I'd give this another go seeing as how my first attempt was so poor. Did a lot better on this occasion!
DCS World with the latest FW190 Dora addon aircraft.

[@Tome4kkkk]

Hi! Good videos! 3:30 Avoid decreasing engine power while in a dogfight. Instead: + If you're overtaking, go out of plane of his turn (similarly to how Yo-Yo maneuvers work). + If you're overtaking, you can brake high. You don't blow off the steam (your energy) then, you 'convert' speed to altidude. You can convert altitude back to speed very quickly. Plus you get to position yourself on a favourable position. BUT. If you're at the lower part of loop (4th quarter), split S or similar, at an already rather high speed and increasing it is often better to do cut on the throttle. By failing to do so you enter a speed range of not optimal turn rate, going very wide, losing e.g. 1.5 km of altitude while saving, what, 150 kph of speed. Not worth it if there's a risk the enemy is trying to break out. Also everyone tells you you trade altitude for speed and vice versa. Well, most people forget the exchange is not so effective at high speeds (aero drag ~ speed^2). Similarly, if you find yourself doing a very high speed horizontal turn, skew the turn up. Flatten it if you approach your optimal turn speed again. Stall at the top of a near vertical climb: To be avoided. Brake of earlier and re-engage. If you get cought like that though: Don't roll at the top :) Chose the plane of your recovery turn and execute. Don't get surprised by a near-spin conditions. Anticipate. Know the influence of prop wash. In short begin to push the correct rudder pedal at the beginning. The lower speed and the higher engine power setting the more rudder is required to counter the prop wash effect.

[@deephack]

Tome4kkkk Thanks for taking the time to write up these tips Tome, I've already started using yo-yo style manoeuvres and trading speed for height rather than throttling back. You should see an improvement in my next videos. I now need to work on my vertical manoeuvres!

[@Tome4kkkk]

deephack Addidng new techniques to your arsenal one by one, huh? I think you'll do fine. I feel you're not as hopeless as some of DCS video posters :) Just to make it clear. I'm not some dogfighting terminator you can find on some servers. I just happen to understand aerodynamics and flight mechanics >really< well.

[@Mariloles75]

Nice job!!!

[@tonykeith76]

Nice! You posted this video four years ago, and I bought the 190 a week ago.. Want you please give some links of the friends you talked of in the video? I need more advices to fight (better) with the Dora :-) Thank You very much!

[@michaelforsythe4335]

Another D-9 newb here. Lost count of the number of times I've had that P-51 lined up only to have my nose go wobbly and virtually stall out - the Dora really doesn't like me to try and treat it like a Spitfire. Keeping it always above 300 seems mandatory.Seems to lose too much energy in tight turns and that bastard Mustang gets on my 6. Of course I have 'god mode' and he doesn't.....

[@Tome4kkkk]

7:28 There's only one explanation then. You're on drugs! :) Seriously though, I've just watched the entire video and enjoyed every minute of it. Subscribing. PS. You're accent reminds of Scott Manley who does KSP video tutorials :)

[@deephack]

Tome4kkkk I get the Scott Manley comment a lot. Although I'm also Scottish I'm actually from the east coast while I'm pretty sure he is from the west. I really enjoy his videos, if only the quality of my videos could remind people of Scott Manley I'd be set! ;-)

[@Tome4kkkk]

deephack As a Pole I consider identifying a Scott by accent a feat already :) I couldn't tell the difference between E and W accents for sure. As for S.M.'s videos. A combination of passion and lots of knowledge. I don't see you needing to beef up on passion, so the knowledge part will work out.

[@hellfire2574]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's Scott Manley.

[@Tome4kkkk]

And he has a ball seeing us commenting on how similar his voice sounds :D

[@deephack]

Tome4kkkk ;-)

[@stejones697]

I would love this game, but I’ve no experience with flight sims, well apart from the jets in Battlefield 3 ha! How hard are they to learn and are there access to guides? Cheers

[@deephack]

Flight sims are great fun. There is quite a learning curve to be honest but if you pick one aircraft to start with and just deep learn it you can become proficient. The docs are good and all aircraft come with interactive training missions too. Then you have some nice KZbin videos out there ;-)

[@stejones697]

@@deephack ahh ok might have to invest then. Would you recommend starting with the WW2 fighters?

[@deephack]

@@stejones697 Not necessarily, it really depends what interests you most and what level of complexity you want to attack. What do you enjoy doing in the sim? Just flying fixed wing or helicopters. What kind of mission? CAP, transport, ground attack, CAS etc.

[@stejones697]

@@deephack Fast jet interests me the most and I’d love to learn to dogfight, I interested in the science behind it. I’d enjoy flying the WW2 planes as well though.

[@Tome4kkkk]

BTW, I see you're just starting with posting DCS videos. I think this resource may give you an edge in terms of quality of videos or workflow forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=53839 Some of the information is outdated, still a knowledge vault. PS. I'm not saying the quality of your vids is bad.

[@theeltea]

classic bot fight :-)