First dogfight, looking for some feedback

[Diesel_Thunder]

I'm enjoying my recent purchase of the P-51. Pretty easy for me to get task saturated in this bird, and get behind the aircraft, but still is fun.

 

So I set up a dogfight against a FW-190 A8 Anton, set to average skill. Both of us start at 10k feet over water, with me 2½ miles behind. I managed to get score hits twice, but didn't shoot him down. He ended up crashing into the water during a low altitude maneuver.

 

Some of my lessons learned:

 

• Set the radio frequencies in the editor before flying.
  
• Don't go straight and level for too long trying to pick up airspeed, as that allows your enemy to get in attack position on your six.
  
• Maintain flap awareness, I ended up with 20° flaps at one point.
  
• A 15 year old X-45 HOTAS is not the best stick to use.
  
• Did an overhead break landing, and overshot the turn. Was able to make the runway with a small bounce.
  

Here's the track. Would like to get some feedback please.

p51 first dogfight.trk