Falcon4 TipsB1A General Aggressive/High Threat Enemy

Falcon4 Tips

Missile threat survival

There are two things you need to do to survive an enemy missile launch. First, avoid the missile. The second thing, which is less obvious, is do not let yourself be put on the defensive(get pinned down by multiple enemy missile launches). Avoid this by firing first or firing back at the enemy.

Avoid the missile

Here are maneuvers to avoid the missile.

Orthogonal role

This maneuver is how you can defeat close range missile shots. It is a fast maneuver to perform and it does a lot in terms of changing your position. This maneuver will zigzag you up and down and left and right quickly. To perform the maneuver, first pull back on the stick. While continuing to pull back on the stick move the stick left or right. This will apply pitch(climb/descend the aircraft along the lift vector) and roll it at the same time.

When you are doing the maneuver, you will want to hurry it up a lot. When you get to the bottom right or the bottom left in the maneuver, speed up the roll to hurry up the maneuver. This will make the maneuver less circular but thats ok because the point is to just zigzag left/right and up/down. Then climb diagonally up.(see video 1)

Don't get put on the defensive(pinned down)

You need to do more then just avoid the enemy's missile. You also need to put him on the defensive-that is fire a missile at him. You need to put every enemy in front of you on the defensive by firing a missile at him or turnaround 180 degrees and leave the fight. To do this, monitor your air to air radar and make sure no aircraft gets much closer than 20 miles.

Often you do not have enough missiles to fire one at every enemy on your radar. When it is possible that there are other enemy aircraft besides the ones that you can put on the defensive, it is important to keep in mind that they can close the distance when you are avoiding one enemy's missile. To keep a good standoff distance between you and the other enemy aircraft, it is best to be heading 180 degrees away from it when doing a missile avoidance manuever.

A good such 180 degree turn away maneuver is to do a split s, in which you roll upside down and then pull back on the stick. Keep pulling back on the stick until you are doing a 60 degree dive. Then let go of the stick and keep going at a 60 degree dive. Build up speed until you are going 550-600 miles per hour. Then pull back on the stick and climb until you are at about 0 degrees level.

Then do a barrel roll. Make sure you are not helping the missile by keeping yourself close to 180 degrees away from the missile. This means you should do a barrel roll sweeping the 4:30-5 o'clock or 7:30 8 o'clock and avoiding putting the missile at 3 or 9 o'clock(90 degrees or 270 degrees) because this would help the missile catch up to you. The more you keep it behind you, the more you hinder the missile catching up to you.

Keep the barrel roll close to 180 degrees away from the missile also helps you keep the enemy from closing the distance from you. The more you can keep heading away from the enemy, the more you can do a hit and run attack on the enemy. This would be a tactic in which you launch a missile, and then do the above mentioned split S and barrel roll maneuver-a launch and leave tactic. [see video2

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Falcon4 TipsB1A General Aggressive/High Threat Enemy

Falcon4 TipsB1A General Aggressive/High Threat Enemy

Falcon4 Tips

Missile threat survival

Avoid the missile

Don't get put on the defensive(pinned down)

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