Playing War Thunder's simulator battle event. No hud, just you, your tank/airplane, and your wits. It's Americans and Russians vs Germans. I decided to fly a P-47. Second ever game in Simulator battle. I have my trackir set up, and my joystick properly setup.

In my first 5 minutes I got spooked by a Yak-9T and dropped my bombs in panic expecting a fight. Well there went my Tank Killing ability.

 Well for a good bit nothing happened, I was just calling out targets for the ground forces and any CAS aircraft we had up. Then someone spotted a Ju-87 over our ground forces. I quickly scanned the area where I finally noticing him circling, scanning for targets. I slotted in on his six, got a good burst in and down he went. My first ever Sim battle kill.

Again for a while longer nothing happened. Continued to scan. That's when I spotted another two Jerries flying over the battle. One definite Ju-87 and one twin engined that I only caught a glimpse of. The Twin engine plane slotted in on me so I opened my throttle and hit the deck and broke contact. Once I could no longer see him I regained altitude and returned to the battle. Again this dude slots in on me and I break contact. Using the Jug's fantastic airspeed. Well this time I had his number. It was clearly a BF-110 and not the Me-410 that I feared. I watched him like a hawk this time and sure enough he broke off again. So I brought my nose around and again pushed my P-47 to the limit.

Since he was a slow dumb Bf-110 I quickly caught up to him in my big fat, but surprisingly fast Jug. My 8 .50 cals roared to life. First burst knocked out his landing gear. Second burst killed his gunner. Last burst set him on fire. Boom, Bf-110 down. I just scored my second Air to Air victory in one game, which is my second ever Sim battle sortie.

The match was over and I was shaking. My palms were sweaty, and I felt exhilarated. Sim battle pilots are no slouches, and I managed to kill two. Ableit with a far superior aircraft, but still, TWO KILLS ON MY SECOND FLYOUT. Not once did I stall or lose control. That big fat lady was happy as can be and cheerfully responded to my every control. I think I'm in love.