Hi again!

	Yet another CK story here! I guess I should slow down
	with posting these, but I just could not resist! :-)

	This happened last Monday, when I had already played
	for several hours, and was having quite a good day,
	with many kills/assists and several succesfull CAPpings
	of F15 against repeated Green attacks to take the only
	Red field at that time.

	The sun of my CK world was getting low on the horizon,
	and I had just been shot down near F22 by a purple P39.
	(Yes, that is right, a P39! I did my usual mistake of
	underestimating what those "lesser" planes can do in
	the hands of a good pilot, and ended up flying my P51
	without the rear fuselage..:-)

	Anyways, as I was flying towards the F22 again, I was
	met with the most surprising sight! There were no less
	than 5 purple BF109Gs, a P51D, an FW, and a P38 flying
	low towards F15 from F22! There were a few Reds around,
	but none was in sight at the moment.

	I had to compliment the purples (and at the same time
	let them know it was me above, in case they had some
	sort of BoB arrangement going, after all NOBODY on their
	right mind would fly BF109s against Red P38s, right?:-)
	I radio something like "pate: WTG purps, flying the
	BF109s! Nice to see some variety!", which was greeted
	by "pdoc: cc pate... obliged!" (or something...) So,
	looks like it is OK for me to attack them!

	I felt like this was my birthday or something, purps
	organizing eight low targets for my lonely high P51D!
	Happy happy joy joy! :-) Oh, but now I am faced with
	the difficulty of choosing..

	Well, the purple P51D was for some reason flying away
	from the rest of the group (strange, I though.. If I
	were low in P51, I would certainly stay around some
	friendly stallfighters!). An obvious target... So I
	dive after it, trimming my plane to 400 knots level
	speed while diving.

	I soon catch up with it, plant myself at his six,
	about 300 yeards behind, and give it a couple of
	half-second burst from my MGs.. See a ping, correct
	my aiming, and give a good second of MG fire.. And
	down he goes, without his elevators.. :-)

	Now is the time to check six, I think, and look back..
	And what a sight that is! Three BF109s and a P38
	following me, all at less than 1000 yards! Hmm, if
	this isn't the definition of "trouble", I don't know
	what is!

	Well, I could outrun the 109s so that I would only
	have that P38 to deal with (the smart thing to do),
	or I could stay and fight (the stupid option). Well,
	the sun was setting in my CK world, and it was getting
	rather late in the real world, so i decide to go out
	with a bang, so to speak.. :-)

	My speed is a bit over 300 knots, so I pull back hard,
	turning left a bit at the same time. When I reach 60
	degree climb, I kick left rudder until I am going
	almost straight down, lower all flaps, and bank left
	hard. At this point I receive a few pings, and get
	a hole into my fuel tank.

	And what I see next makes me laugh so hard I almost
	auger! All those following me fly past my guns, the
	P38 leading the pack! Too bad I cannot aim correctly
	and laugh at the same time.. :-) The three 109s begin
	to turn left, trying to follow my turn, with the
	result that I am actually now tailing them! Oh how I
	wish I could have saved a screen copy of this, it
	looked so funny! Here I am, low and slow P51, tailing
	3 enemy BF109s and a P38!

	For some reason (probably because I am on full flaps)
	I gain angles from the 109s slowly but surely, and
	one of them is soon 300 yards away and in just
	the right spot for a bit of deflection shooting..
	A burst from my MGs, hitting his tail section, and
	he crashes! Hehe..

	And then the next BF109 is at the same position, I
	hit his tail section. Too bad I cannot now remember
	if he crashed or not after that..

	At this point the P38 overshoots me (or something),
	as he is suddenly in front of me, turning right..
	I get greedy, thinking that it would really be the
	perfect ending for this day if I could kill it, too!
	I get a ping or two into it, but cannot follow it's
	turn any farther.

	From the corner of my eye I see a Purple Zeke doing
	a Boom-n-Zoom manouevre towards me, but luckily he
	misses (hehe, I thought this was pretty cool, too!
	A TnB plane doing BnZ against a low BnZ plane doing
	TnB.. :-)

	At this point I am almost out of fuel, and I see
	more Reds joining the fun, so I think it might be a
	good idea to land and ditch now when my engine is
	still running. Gear down, and a slow descent.. But,
	as luck will have it, the fuel runs out when I am
	too low to change my angle of descent or raise flaps,
	and too high to land gracefully.. So I crash. Damn.

	Well, nothing more to do besides thanking the Purps
	for a great fight, and log off. So, again, thanks
	Purps for flying the BF109s! You made real good
	targets! :-)


	Patrick "pate" Aalto
	ap@jyu.fi
	http://www.jyu.fi/~ap/