## Know Your Aircraft

Knowing how your aircraft performs is crucial to dogfighting. Familiarize yourself with its strengths and weaknesses, including speed, maneuverability, climb rate, and turn radius. This allows you to know when to engage and when to disengage.

## Know Your Opponent

Understanding your opponent’s aircraft is just as important as knowing your own. Learning their strengths and weaknesses allows you to exploit them, choose favorable engagements, and reduce unnecessary risk.

## Positions of Authority

There are several positions where you will have the advantage over your opponent. Being high above an enemy gives you higher energy giving you an edge when engaging. The second main position is behind them since it allows you to land easy hits.

## Jinking

Jinking is a technique used to break the enemy's aim by making sudden, unpredictable movements to break their aim. You want to make sharp maneuvers that force the enemy to overshoot you by making the enemy have to adjust in directions that do not favor their maneuverability.

## Profile

In a dogfight, maintaining a profile that minimizes your exposure to enemy fire is crucial. By presenting a smaller profile, you reduce the chances of getting hit if you are on the deffensive

## Energy reading

If an enemy is higher than you they have more potential energy giving them an advantage in most cases. If they are at a similar altitude but going faster they have more kinetic energy giving them an advantage. when in a stall, you have to observe how thier plane reacts to guage thier enery compare to yours