The thing is that sim aircraft modellers do have the exact same reference data to design their versions of aircraft with.
Aircraft speeds are consistant from book to book, website to website, as are ceilings, turning circles, roll and pitch rates, armaments etc.
Therefore if aircraft (A) can turn inside aircraft (B) in real life and this is found to be the case in numerous other sims over the decades, why not question that when (B) can turn inside (A) in one particular sim, something is not wrong??
In every WW2 sim I've ever played, the Hurricane II will tunr inside a Spitfire, bith will turn inside a Bf-109 and the Fw-190 will turn inside the all of them except the Hurricane. The Bf-110 will outclimb all but the Fw-190 and the P-51 is damned fast, like a winged sports car, though not as maneuverable as a Spitfiire but bloody close.
The Fw-190 out perfoms the Bf-109 and Spitfire IX in all other sims, down the years, and this it did in real life too, otherwise what was the point of its existance??
In relationship to other contemporaries in a sim, an histiorical aircraft can be precisely bracketed so as to relate to other simulated aircraft, in that particular simulation, in the same ratio and proportions relating to its abilities.
For instance a Zero should always climb fast, dive slow, have a higher than average roll and pitch rate below 200 MPH and take hits like it was made of Balsa Wood and Tinfoil.
All sims have always portrayed the Zero according to this ideal and this is what players expect to experience if they fly a Zero in a sim on anything.
The thing is that the screw up with the flight models shouldn't have been in the flight models of the affected aircraft to begin with. Didn't anybody bother to check and verify the errors during beta testing??
A patch for something that shouldn't have happened is akin to bolting the stable door long after the horse has bolted, like several months after the horse has bolted.
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