Some considerations about the FM purists...

Originally Posted by JG4_Helofly

Maye it would help if there would be a performance difference of about + or - 3% for every plane every time you fly. So even if the enemy flys a slightly faster plane, you don't know if he has a good production model or not. You might even be equally fast with a very well build slower plane. In fact, that's what happened in RL.
At the moment, you can't run away from a slightly faster plane, because after a 10 min chase at sea level, he will catch you. Even if he is only 2 km/h faster. Same goes for climb and turn. This wouldn't happen in RL since they had to worry about other things then chasing someone for hours.
And that's why pure performance is more important in the game than in RL IMO.

That is one simply brilliant idea. Hope some of the devs are around to pick up on such solutions!

[Sven]

I agree with Helofly, that would solve the problem really well, if the basis for those slight performance drops/gains is correct, then it would be a very good and correct way to model the FM.