New User Flying Help

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1- Basic Flight Maneuvers - (sometimes abbreviated BFM). This link is aimed towards flying an F-15, but the info applies to SkyFighters 1945 or 1918 as well. Unless you want the documentation of the F-15, start with Chapter Two. http://www.flightsimbooks.com/jfs/ You can also look back to the home page of the Flight Sim Books website, and see lots of online reading about Flight Simulator flying. http://www.flightsimbooks.com/

2- Air Combat Manuevers or Tactics - (sometimes abbreviated ACM). This site has a good explanation of Energy fighting tactics, versus Angle fighting tactics. http://www.musketeers.org/ACMtactics.htm

2a - Another site that has TONS of BFM and ACM info is http://www.furball.warbirdsiii.com/krod/offline.html

2b - The Dicta Boelcke - The Dicta Boelcke is a list of fundamental tactics of air combat formulated by the first great German flying ace of the First World War, Oswald Boelcke. Many modern flyers still see his Dicta as being as relevant today as it was during the Great War. This link goes to a page of the wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicta_Boelcke

2c - More ACM's and tactics - "In Pursuit- A Pilots Guide to Online Air Combat" " This link connects to a PDF file that covers a wide variety of topics for online pilots to improve their skills from BFM's to ACM's to gunnery skills and more. It can easily be saved to disc for future reference and review. http://web.comhem.se/~u85627360/inpursuit.pdf

3- Sighting your enemy - using the gunsight - This webpage is a translation of the GAF (German Air Force) booklet given to their fighter pilots. It is title Horrido! http://ww2airfronts.org/Flight%20School/transition/weaponsschool/revishoot.html