The pilots were much more valuable to both sides than the planes were. Even the best German aces were shot down numerous times.

During the Battle of Britain, Göring wanted the Luftwaffe to shoot pilots who had already bailed out. Many of them wouldn't do it.

If you have an ace pinned down, it is wiser to kill them before they can bail, or they'll just get another plane and do more damage than 10 average pilots.

Moral issues aside, it makes more sense to kill the guy trying to kill you rather than let him away to try again tomorrow.

Erich Rudorffer was shot down 16 times including 9 bailouts. He ultimately racked up over 200 kills to become the #7 all-time fighter ace, even considering the different scoring systems used by Germany and other countries. No doubt the Soviets would have killed him if they could, instead of just shooting him down. He's still alive.

Günther Rall, who was the highest-scoring living ace till he died 2 months ago, was shot down 8 times and finally retired from combat when his thumb was shot off by a p-47 pilot. Though he had downed 2 p47's first. But he was returned to combat later even without his thumb. Wounding him wasn't good enough.

Adolf Galland was shot down early in his career over the English Channel but was rescued and would claim 55 spitfires and become chief of the Luftwaffe's fighter wing.

yeh its true that pilots are more valuble than planes but i have this therory if it comes to a war of attrition
if its over your teratory let him bail take him prisoner prisoners are worth more than kills
if its over enemy teretory kill him so he cant go up again.
however i couldent bring myself to kill a person whether it was for my country, my family or anything pluss what comes around goes around if you let him go you may be shot down and let go rather than killed

wow, what's so great about the JUG that makes you say that? I just might get the DLC after all... I wanna be a JUG pilot!

Makes me think about buying it also. Being one of the only people who regularly flys the pre-patch P-51D online, it would be nice to fly the plane that the cockpit is actually ment for. I'd probably use it quite a bit in dogfights on sim for its quick roll and dive.

yeh its aq good plane
the things i like most about it are its not too bad at turning it can take an endless amount off 303 fire alot of 50 fire and quite a bit of cannon but its better at taking machine gun fire than cannon fire. and i know cannons are more powefull but 1 solid hit on a wing from an la7 and ur going down although not as fast as other planes would.
also i love its guns very accurate lots of ammo and alot of dammage

If you could be so kind, let us know how fast the plane is... it's a big jug but then it's got that huge engine plus I believe the JUG had some sort of turbo... to be specific, how fast is it at around 100 meters (basically on the deck) with full WEP in kph? No rush... thanks!

Sorry for the double post... I just thought about asking you also how well does the P-47 roll in this game? Fast? I heard it's supposed to roll well... if it rolls anything like the Foxwoulfes that would be awesome...

P-47 does 560 kph with WEP and at level flight (without bombs and/or rockets). It is a flying tank hard to take out. Did I mention that it is easy on the eye? lol :)

Does not roll like the FW's more like the Hurricane I would say