Turning on the Edge of a Stall
by TC aka Tequila Chaser

As you will soon find out in Aces High, most dogfights will degenerate into slow stall speed turn fights. In these types of situations, the plane that has the best low-speed sustained turn rate will more often then not, hold the edge. But that alone does not make it the victor, no sir. The pilot who can obtain the best turn performance out of his plane might also hold the advantage of the edge. It is very important to be able to turn, maintain control of your plane and use flaps well at or near stall speeds.

During these conditions most times, you will be using full throttle and wep if it is available to you, and along with the stall horn blaring in your ear, the key is to find the edge just before you stall out and the nose of your plane drops below the horizon. You want to be able to hold the stick back with as much stick input as possible and still maintain control of flight at the slowest speed you can possibly obtain even extending flaps as needed to maintain stability.

The more seat time you gain the more you will find yourself flying on or near the edge of the stall, possibly even going past the edge of the flight envelope, but you will have the knowledge of doing so to quickly bring it back with out completely stalling out or spinning. You will learn the ability of being able to fly at the edge of the stall without losing any altitude. If you are able to fly this edge and your opponent is not, then you have a big advantage over him, if you are not lucky enough to gain angles on him you might at least cause him to lose control, stall and crash, or at least let you evade and reset for a more desirable fight.