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Originally Posted by horseback
You can de-bunk and question the memories of an old man, but he was there, doing things that 99 out of a hundred of us could never do on the best days of our lives. Maybe, just maybe, there is a bit of truth in what he was saying.
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With respect... I don't think any of us are going to say that this was a fabrication or a lie or anything like that. But human memory is notoriously unreliable... I'd rather go with the test results and that type of more objective (it's not 100% here) than some crazy move that a veteran pulled, that worked (again, no denying that), as the basis for a FM change. There isn't anything to go on there anyways...
What you say about the P-40/P-51 trim thing is true. I've heard the P-40 required a lot of trim to get it right while the P-51 was easier in this regard. Test pilot and combat pilot reports corroborate that. So it's not 100% right in the sim... definitely not. But I've looked over data long and hard and I'm not sure what's wrong either. The other thing that you'll notice is that 4.12 features an updated FM for the P-40 and some of that trim stuff will probably come into play.