Just curious about the P-51 FM

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IIRC there were quite a few pilots that did not like the P-51 better than the P-40 or P-39. And didn't 56th FG willingly fly P-47 because they liked them more than the P-51?
And didn't -I think- Bud Anderson state that the P-51 required trim adjustment all through the whole flight?

The P-39 though does require constant trim change in this game. The Bf 109 supposedly does not require much trim change -as it has no adjustable rudder and aileron trim -it was designed that way.

The P-40 in this game does not require trim change as much as it should need IMHO. And it is a extremly stable gunnnery platform, maybe a bit too stable.
Just speculation, but maybe the non-changing CoG could give rise to this behaviour?

And yes I do think the plane models -even the late war US fighters- are fairly accurate and compare well to each other. This sim doesn't just give them the accurate historic context. Range and good serviceability don't count. Pilot quality is the same in the Axis and Allied camp while in real life at the time where the Mustang ruled the skies on average an Axis pilot was less capable than an US pilot. And US forces used superior tactics many times, trying to attack from favorable positions, trying to bring numerical superiority, and trying to cover each other.

Had the US in the late war faced an enemy that could bring equal numbers of planes with enough fuel and equally capable pilots, using the same tactics the US did(reflecting the situation in this sim), they would have suffered considerably.