Hi,
have not posted too often here. But this is triggering me.
A few days ago i AARed for the first time. It took me about 1.5 fuel tanks... no idea how many hours... in two sessions to figure it out... more or less. I have no idea if this is good, bad or average. But what i learned is - forget curves and forget spring tension. Especial curves are a unpredictable crutch that drove me crazy after fife minutes.
Use a stick extension.
If you look down the cockpit of your fancy... Hog/Hornet/Harrier... you will notice that the stick is... what... half a meter long? All to the bottom of your aircraft. And yip. Even in your mighty-morphing-fly-by-wire-hornet. So using an extension and/or axis zoom is nothing what i would call cheating. It is simple part of the simulation.
After all i am sitting now behind the equivalent of a more than 30cm long stick. And it feels quiet natural, challenging - yes - but absolutely doable. So doing something that is maned to be done with the precision of a half-meter long stick with one only 2 cm... well. Yea. Forget it. Of course it is crazy difficult - if possible at all. It was never thought this way
So do not come with a knive to a fire fight.