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Originally Posted by Woke Up Dead
Is this what happens when YOU fly the P-51? I get a better experience, and I'm probably just an above-average pilot in that plane.
The 109 is one of the easiest to fly and most stable to shoot with planes in the game, and the P-51 isn't. Once you get good with the P-51 though, you'll be able to out-fly and eventually shoot down any 109, even the G-2 and the K-4.
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And historically, the Mustang was one of the easiest to fly (and
land, in direct contrast to the 109) and stable to shoot with of all WWII aircraft.
The in-game trim requirements are much too high in
all late-war US fighters; in the case of the Mustang, you need to make rudder and elevation adjustment
s (not
an adjustment) for every 10kph of speed variation, which is more than 6kph
more often than the RL P-40 actually needed (and the P-40 was easily the biggest trim hog in the US inventory by
every account). Obviously that is several times more often than the in-game versions of the P-40.
The only thing that is consistent about the 'ball' in the game's Mustangs is that if you are flying anything but straight and level at constant speed, it will be wrong; switching from cockpit view to Wonder Woman, the Turn & Bank indicator will usually be contradicted by the vector ball, and the error is not consistent the way most other aircraft instruments are depicted--always to one side or the other--it can go either way, and it seems more a matter of the luck of the draw than the direction you are moving or how abruptly you are changing direction.
People who have mastered the Mustang in-game have done so through long hours of practice, many, many more than most other aircraft require and inversely proportional to the learning curve of the real thing in the context of high performance single engine aircraft of that era. While I recognize that effort and skill, and absolutely agree that you should be proud of it, it should never have been necessary.
It certainly isn't realistic.
cheers
horseback