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The aircraft or the pilot?
Monday, July 26, 2004 (4:30 AM)

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jadeboy (44)
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The aircraft or the pilot?
Which you think are more important to winning a dogfight. The person flying or the aircraft?

I definetly have to said the person, case in point. The US navy has a school called TOP GUN (also there is a movie on called "TOP GUN" based on the school), in which young elite US navy pilot are trained against veteran pilots, the young pilots are flying far more sophisticated aircraft but they get the ass kicked in dogfight against the veteran in cheaper and older aircraft.


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Flanker (73)
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Posted: July 26, 2004 (4:44 AM)
I think that the pilot has to be very trained, more than 220 flying hours per year and he must have been flying on different types of airplanes and to grow together with the airplane, than he has the real chance to win in dog fight.
But the plane is important too. Agility, maneuverability, they are the right way to success. Otherwise, although that the pilot has more than 30000 flying hours on 5 types of airplanes, it could'n help him, if the airplane he is flying on, has not agility and maneuverability, he will lose the dog fight.

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Flanker (73)
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RE: The aircraft or the pilot?
Posted: July 26, 2004 (4:45 AM)
In Erwartung Ihrer baldigen Antwort, verbleibe ich mit freundlichen Gruessen.

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MarlboroManX (48)
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Posted: April 21, 2008 (5:51 AM)
Its really a mix of both.
And take Top Gun the movie with a grain of salt, any experienced pilot can tell you most of what is in the movie is hollywood hogwash. There is no way in HELL F-14's would engage in dogfights with any enemy that outnumbered them that heavily, given the time period they'd have sent AIM-7 Sparrows their way or even more likely AIM-54 Phoenixes considering it was a fleet defense operation.

One has to include both in the factor. Take the best pilot in the world and put him in a P-51 Mustang or a BF-109 against an F-15 or a Su-27 he's going to die.

The pilot becomes the determining factor only when the two aircraft involved are of similar caliber.

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