Arcade armchair "expert" debunked.

[Jumoschwanz]

Nice articles Swiss. In the end the point is that it certainly takes a little more skill to fly a WWII fighter aircraft than it does to fly on Fun4All server.

I did fly around on Fun4All for a while to show support for my acquaintance, after all I don't want to be a snob.

So I flew around in a fast late-war allied aircraft for a while. I was at a disadvantage because being used to flying realistic settings for the last dozen years I always fly with things on my mind like blacking or redding out, engine overheating, not to mention a realistic flight model and a cockpit.
I kept the cockpit on for a while as it was there by default, but then I turned it off for a bit and it was odd being able to see your target while you were shooting at it in hard turns while not blacking-out, pretty silly and Pac-Man like and surely needing much less skill than on realistic settings.

A few were flying around in Japanese aircraft and they were of no concern to me because they were all either slower, or much slower than my aircraft. One of them started crying because he could not understand why I used my aircraft's speed instead of getting in a slow turning fight with a Japanese aircraft, odd......

I flew around at a few thousand meters altitude shooting at whatever ended up in front of me, another fun4all pilot said that what I was doing was not fair, as if anything on that server matters at all. By server rules you are not supposed to "boom and zoom", so why was my aircraft spawning at 9000 meters altitude? shouldn't they be making these chivalrous morons all start off at ground level? I guess you are never supposed to shoot at anyone who is at a lower altitude or speed than you, only those who are higher or slower? Pretty comical.

The last "gamer" I disposed of I did not even have to shoot at, I simply knew how fast my aircraft could dive and he did not. I did not even have to look back, I just watched the large silly colored pointer on my HUD that signified his aircraft zoom quickly to the bottom of the screen, scratch on La-7.......

And at that I had enough "fun" and jumped onto a server with realistic settings and began doing all those hard, senseless things that WWII pilots had to do, like actually looking for other aircraft and identifying them without having large colored banners and arrows pointing at them...