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Originally Posted by Village Idiot
Nah, it looks more like the Japanese TSF Yuuta was using just have much more sensitive controls compared to the American TSF's that he's not used to it.
Its kind of like driving a car with power steering and then driving without it. It just feels...different at first until you get used to it.
Or in FPS terms, like going from 4.0 sensitivity to 12.0.
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It's not just about control sensitivity alone, it's about the way the TSFs maneuver. Yuuya's used to designs like the Strike Eagle that can maneuver themselves with thrusters and thrust vectoring alone, while Japanese designs with their comparatively underpowered engines have to maneuver using mechanical characteristics and control surfaces like the head antennae and the forearm sheaths as control surfaces, making them very twitchy and fiddly.
Yuuya's entire flying style revolves around abusing his TSF's acceleration and speed to jink around and outmaneuver the opponent, and he's been doing well with that so far. But right now Yuuya's trying to toss the Fubuki about with thrusters alone based on his existing training, being inexperienced in the use of the kind of extra aerodynamic control surfaces that the Fubuki relies heavily on, so he's not controlling his machine properly as per Japanese design philosophy. (Not to say that the Americans don't also make light maneuverable designs like the F-5, F-16, F-18 etc)
It's basically simple incompatibility in American and Japanese pilot training, it might not be too farfetched to say that an Imperial pilot might have issues trying to handle something like the Raptor for the first time in the opposite direction in terms of control issues, seeing as the Raptor is basically designed to push out massive quantities of thrust to get around.