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Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

A typical FW190 discussion from years ago, there's been plenty of them around over the years.

Lol post#107 from this old discussion on FW190 refers to old DM discussions around that time.

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...-series-Forums

That discussion thread actually pulls in a lot of good evidence - although much of it anecdotal - about how the FW-190 flew and took damage.

That's good for players learning how to fly the plane, and for mission builders, but not so good for developers. Anecdotes are useless there. Instead, what we need is numbers, ideally statistics, and perhaps good photographs.

The exceptions might be reports by very experienced test pilots. For example, I might take Eric Brown's or Hanna Reitsch's opinions at face value.

For pilots with less experience flying different aircraft types, what's valuable is simpler numbers about the planes they knew best. For example, if Robert Johnson said that the P-47C-10 could go X mph at 20,000' at Y inches of manifold pressure, then he's probably right.

But that only applies to flight modeling. DM modeling is a can of worms. There's just no way it can be as realistic as FM since we literally lack the tools to model it correctly. All you can do is get it "in the ballpark," relative to other planes.