I really hope that during the following patched they do find a good tweak for the Merlin that is fairly representative for the realistic behaviour. With the current patch the behaviour is just like old IL2. Back then it was alright but now completely different story.

Also the 109 needs an overhaul. I did many repetivite flights and I think the performance is not quite right on some points. I cannot yet tell what exactly apart from the speed issue. However my perception may be falsified by the uber-AI capabilities which also needs to be addressed in one patch or another.

But with the new patch the dev team showed what they are capable of and if this continues like this CoD will be a benchmark for flightsims for the next 10 years as the old IL2 was in its time.