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Excellent contribution, ArtieBob
I agreed with your main points. The most important thing is to use right tactics. Play the strong points of own mount and exploit the weaknesses of the enemy's a/c. One good example of that was the experiences of two experienced Spit sqns transferred to Far East after successful service against LW, one at Darwin against Zeros and the other in Burma against Ki-43s. In both cases the pilots didn't heed to the advices of the "locals" because they thought that if they were able to handle "Jerries in Bf 109s" they could take "Japs anytime" and as a result were roughly handed by the Japanese. Only after that they understood that the advice "Don't dogfight with Japanese" was true also with Spitfire pilots.
Juha
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