"In any practice engagement I have had in the last 20 years where I have turned with another aeroplane in a bigger picture environment – rather than the static one by ones, two by twos or four by fours – every time I have tried to do that I have ended up being shot by somebody else who actually is not in the fight. As soon as you enter a turning fight, your situational awareness actually shrinks down because the only thing you can be operating with is the aeroplane you are turning with. The person who has the advantage is the person who can stand off, watch the engagement and just pick you off at the time. So you got to be really careful about how you use those KPIs."
In view of the disparity between the Meteor and MiG numbers in their Korean War engagements, it's remarkable that the kill ratio between the two was so close. Then there's the Meteor's ground attack record which arguably no other aircraft at the time could match, no?:
"The communist ground forces soon began to feel the effects of the continuous attacks on their supply lines, and by early May, began to send their MiGs south in the hope of intercepting the raiders before they could reach their targets. Once more, the Meteors were to clash with the MiGs. On 4 May 1952 a patrol of two Meteors sighted a flight of nine MiG-15s south west of Pyongyang. The MiGs immediately launched an attack, but on this occasion the odds lay with the Meteors. The MiGs were forced to fight the Meteors at low altitude, thus relinquishing the MiG's high latitude performance advantage. A MiG latched itself onto Sergeant E. Myer's tail but was quickly shaken off, enabling his number two, Pilot Officer J. Surman, to fire two bursts of cannon fire into the MiG. The starboard tail plane and the starboard side of the MGg's exhaust port were seen to disintegrate in a flash of flame, and Surman was credited with probably having destroyed the aircraft as neither Australian saw the MiG impact the ground. Four days later, in the same area, a flight of four Meteors were intercepted by two MiGs. Once again, the Meteors had a height advantage and Pilot Officer Bill Simonds (A77-385) was able to make a firing pass on one of the enemy jets. The MiG entered an uncontrollable spin, and the pilot was seen to bail out over friendly territory, resulting in the Squadron's ninth MiG claim since the beginning of the war."
"The MiG pilots gained their revenge on the 2 October 1952 when Flying Officer O. Cruickshank, a RAF exchange pilot with the Squadron, was shot down in a surprise attack. A flight of four Meteors had carried out a successful rocket strike and were returning to Kimpo when two MiGs jumped them from the 8 o'clock position. Sergeant K. Murray received a 37 mm hit in the port tail pipe during the MiG's first pass and observed Cruickshank bailing out of A77-436 over Cho'do."