Flight Modeling vs. Flight Handling.

[Les]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Doggles, two different cars can have identical (as close as possible in the real world) measured performance, but can handle and feel very differently.

I suspect it will take another 5 to 10 years of computer development to enable the kind of nuance I'm getting at here.

This can be experienced now in the more advanced car-racing sims. With all the aero, tyre, suspension, gearing and other parameters you can adjust (sometimes with the assistance of telemetry systems like those used in real-life), two drivers can get the same performance (with lap times identical down to a fraction of a second) out of two differently set up cars of exactly the same make and model. Swap those two drivers cars around and with practice they might be able to adjust to each others set ups and still achieve the same lap times, but not without a struggle.