How to play American jets

[Slateco337]

Just got jets for America but having trouble playing them
F3D-1,F86A and F86F,F84G,F80

[Futuristic Hexagon]

Originally posted by Slateco337:

Just got jets for America but having trouble playing them
F3D-1,F86A and F86F,F84G,F80

That's a highly varied list.

For jets in general, you need to stay fast. Above 800 km/h if you can, but for sure above 600 km/h. If you drop below that, you're an easy kill and you'll have trouble getting back up to speed.

F-80A is the first US jet most players who went down the tree will fly. Being a mid 40s design, it's very slow to accelerate off the ground. What I would do is try to side climb a bit. Once you're wheels and flaps up, level out and hit around 600-700 km/h (think that's around 350-400 kts) then pull up a bit to get a good climb, but keep it above 250 at minimum. Do it till you're at a comfortable altitude (usually that's 2500 to 3000m.) From there use your good traits to BnZ through opponents. Some you can outrun (262s, 229s), some you can out turn (MiG-9). Meeting props can be hard as they can keep up with you at this point, but accelerate much faster and turn better.

Sabers, these are BnZ machines primarily. The A Saber can use its superior speed against most of what it sees at 8.3. The F series sabers need to consider the situation more as at 8.7 they'll see supersonics way more, and advanced missiles. On a downtier they can get away with a lot. On an uptier they may play more of a support role, going after energy trapped supersonics or working for a good deflection shot.

F-84G is all about going fast in a straight line. It's all they really can do in game, even back in the day.

Can't say much about the sky knight. What I have seen is they're taken out easily. Perhaps playing it like a really big MiG-9 might help. That is do your inditial climb like the F-80, but just focus on fast straight line attacks.

Either way, general rule of thumb is to stay fast and don't get too caught up on dogfights.

[9imperator8]

I found the F3D-1 to be amazing. People don't really think that you can do anything. But if you have speed, you can do a couple really good turns (untill you lose all your speed and die). This will surprise people and you can often/sometimes catch them off guard. Then you can use the very accurate and devastating guns on them. Also the guns work quite well in head-ons.

[Ook Oook]

No one mentioned it yet but the F86-A5 has automatic leading edge slats which open up under 800, so keep in mind that you always want to be above 800 or you dump speed in turns. Of course if your dog fighting in a true 1v1 and they turn hard might as well tap the air brake and use the slats for ez kill.