British FM killing the fun of the game for allied pilots.

[Robo.]

Originally Posted by VO101_Tom

Aircraft performance can not be accurately compared based on Books and stories. You do not know what were the circumstances, what was the battle scene, what was the status of the planes, who was the experience of the pilots, they had damage or injury before, and you dont know many other reason.
If you read memoirs of pilots who survived the war – it's incredible– but all of them survived the war, and all of them will tell you that they plane was better then other. They win the dogfights.

Kozedub was asked once, what he thinks, what was the best plane of the WW2? He replied: "The La-7. I hope you do not ask me why..."

I think got exactly what you ment Tom, and you're 100%-ly right mate.

More than anything, it's the initial situation that matters, outcome of the fight is about tactics which involves: position (altitude) / speed / maneuveur / shooting (while you mention Kozhedub ), BUT the FMs should be correct to start with regardless. Of course experienced pilot can use even 'porked' plane and succeed (by bouncing the enemy whenever possible) but that's not a reason to keep them porked, is it? Especially if this era is so well researched and all information is available to the devs!

I never actually tried the 100 octane Spit with CEM off to be honest, I use Repka 4 'mince meat' server for personal training and my ride is usually stock Ia Spitfire as at the moment I practice defensive tactics and manoeveurs against 109s (in which case I place myself underneath a decent 109 pilot and see what happens when I get co-E ), although it's fun to fly over there I tend to fly carefully with rpm so I can use that skills on proper servers, too. With CEM switched on, the 100 octane was closer to the 109 climb performance but not quite there and for very limited time due to overheating problems. Mind you that was in 1.07 so I am not sure how it looks like now.