What Is A Brake Turn?

[hubbahub]

Hello there, I am a new player to the series and am trying to improve my turning. I was watching a BFM clip and it mentioned 'brake turning'? Can someone explain what that is, and/or methods to turn tighter and faster? I am still playing on Easy and still have troubles getting someone off my six.

 

Many thanks!

[357th_KW]

https://www.flightsimbooks.com/jfs/page78.php

 

Break turn.  As in "Break right!" etc.  Just a hard turn made into an oncoming attack to prevent an opponent getting weapons on you.

[Lusekofte]

A maneuver that shows my rubbish timing every time 

[cardboard_killer]

The thing I think I should do just after my plane is riddled with cannon fire.

[busdriver]

4 hours ago, KW_1979 said:

https://www.flightsimbooks.com/jfs/page78.php

 

Break turn.  As in "Break right!" etc.  Just a hard turn made into an oncoming attack to prevent an opponent getting weapons on you.

 

Actually a “Break” turn is with maximum g available, where a “Hard” would be an energy sustaining turn. In RL there is a distinction. For 1GCCFPs not so much.

[ZachariasX]

11 minutes ago, busdriver said:

Actually a “Break” turn is with maximum g available, where a “Hard” would be an energy sustaining turn. In RL there is a distinction. For 1GCCFPs not so much.

For the 1GCCFP, a "hard break" is when the wings come off. Popular with the Tempest.

[IckyATLAS]

If you do a very hard turn depending on your speed and angle turn and wings inclination you can generate a dynamic stall on one wing and you would go into a snap roll. I am not sure this would be helpful to disorient a skilled fighter pilot on your six.

[JimTM]

Break Turn: A turn into your opponent to avoid getting shot down

Brake Turn: A turn on the ground using left or right brakes

Knock Turn: A soothing piece of music after a hard day of turning

[Guest deleted@134347]

6 minutes ago, JimTM said:

Knock Turn: A soothing piece of music after a hard day of turning

 

"going to sleep" is an important part of such turn... accompanied by the soothing sounds of Chopin..

 

 

 

Edited February 26, 2020 by Count_de_Money

[JimTM]

21 minutes ago, Count_de_Money said:

 

"going to sleep" is an important part of such turn... accompanied by the soothing sounds of Chopin..

 

The break turn usually does that for me.  

[Guest deleted@134347]

18 minutes ago, JimTM said:

 

The break turn usually does that for me.  

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[hubbahub]

Wow thank you all so much for your answers!

 

yeah, break makes sense more than brake lol. I just wasn’t sure if there was some air braking technique I didn’t know about.

 

thanks again! y’all make a newcomer feel welcome

[Lusekofte]

54 minutes ago, hubbahub said:

yeah, break makes sense more than brake lol. I just wasn’t sure if there was some air braking technique I didn’t know about.

I always looked at is as a brake turn, it bleed speed like f***
We had a overweighted old reporter going up in a British fighter as a passanger right after first gulf war in a winter exercise here. He ended the flight by a sharp turn setting the belly agains direction of speed. The old reporter felt his guts change places in this violent manouver. And asked the pilot what the hell he did when they climbed out the plane. The RAF officer smiled and said he came in to fast and had to make a brake turn in order to avoid going around. 
He might said that to make a old Norwegian with bad English understand. But it stuck with me

[Jaegermeister]

12 hours ago, hubbahub said:

Wow thank you all so much for your answers!

 

yeah, break makes sense more than brake lol. I just wasn’t sure if there was some air braking technique I didn’t know about.

 

thanks again! y’all make a newcomer feel welcome

 

Yes, you can almost always count on everyone here to have way more information than you thought you would ever need!  

Welcome to the fun.

[MasserME262]

On 2/26/2020 at 6:10 PM, cardboard_killer said:

The thing I think I should do just after my plane is riddled with cannon fire.

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