When you see two people circling over and over ... its either a dance , or its two noobs trying to shoot each other.

Learn to change angles during your "loop" and get behind the target... I have no trouble ending the dance before it stars going.
Its all in your technique. Flying lame will put you in a looping fight.

About dampening, considering how fast a starfighter can turn, just the angular velocity of a sharp turn or sudden forward accelleration would create enough Gs to flatten your eyeballs against your eyesockets. Get the dampening systems shot out, and youll be a sitting duck as you "fly normal" back home.   That there would be the best use of a red-out or black-out... the fighter takes damage, and you cant see anymore when you turn sharp, lol.

"The victorious win the battle, then go out to fight ... while the defeated go out to fight, then try to win the battle.   -SunTzu
"The only difference between a capitalist and a communist is that the communist hates competition!" -Circuit

I agree, but I brought this up before and everyone said it would be too hard to find the enemy that way... You still have those grey brackets though so if they do stray far away you would be able to pick them up again.

Those icons really do attribute to the looping...

"Munchkin: One who, on being told that this is a game about politics and intrigue in 17th century Italy, asks to play a ninja."
— Andrew Rilstone