109 advice needed (climb)

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by Insuber

if stating one's honest, yet subjective opinion is irresponsible or requires recordings, we should close 100% of the free world's forums, not to speak about newspapers, parliaments etc. LOL! FM is clearly broken, for all planes, so it is pointless to defend it, full stop (unless you have recordings, of course ...).

I'm not "defending the FM" so much as debunking bogus claims that the Spitfire/Hurricane are overmodeled.

It's been satisfactorily demonstrated elsewhere on these forums that the Spitfire MkIa is actually undermodeled. On top of that we've got the nebulous term "Energy Retention" which is entirely the construction of sim pilots, and not a real performance parameter dealt with by engineers.

I say that it's irresponsible because other, less knowledgeable posters might take what you say as fact, and then we get into the highly-polarized territory so familiar to 1946 pilots where stark lines are drawn between Red and Blue pilots. People get emotionally attached to their favourite rides and spew vitriol at any potential gainsayers.