A question for the flight sim vets.

[steellwaters]

I am new to the flight sim genre..although not new to sim in general(my favorite are the sub simulation games since I was a submariner in the navy but thats besides the point here)

I understand the tactics of dogfighting ....... the purpose of height/speed advantage or maneuverability.....

but what I don't have near a complete knowledge of is the difference between me-109 and a bf 109...or a spitfire or p-51 for that matter.......

sure...I can pick them out of a line-up(most anyways) but what I mean is what are the performance attributes.

I was hoping the vets could compile a list of the planes and the best tactics for winning/surviving a dogfight with each model.

I realise that I could just wikipedia every plane type but I was hoping some of you vets would know alot of this stuff offhand and provide an easy reference....


I like to be a well rounded player and intend to unlock every plane...AND USE EVERY PLANE in online dogfights regularly...so it would be alot of time to look up forty planes and then try to crunch the numbers and such and then I would forget the first half before i finished the second half

I only play sim if can help it(getting my but kicked right now with an AV8R and inside the cockpit(when available)

I will humbly accept an answer of "learn from experience noob" but I would be interested in reading and studying a reference provided by the vets here.

thanks in advance