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Originally Posted by majorfailure
Speed gives you the ability to enter and exit a fight at will. No other plane characteristic gives you such a tremendous advantage IMHO.
And endurance gives you the ability to fight as long as you want - or to leave the fight, reposition, or to fly around known enemy concentrations -and it gives you the ability to get the best aircraft performance for prolonged times - though in IL2 most missions are considerably shorter than real life 4-5 hour missions so endurance is as you said of limited use.
And my aiming problems have little to do with the stability of the P-51, more with usually great closure rates leading to small shot windows -and very largely to not beeing used to flying it.
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Agree with all but the last point. However, the Mustang with half a fuel load gives you all of that. The idea that you need to fly with anything in that damned fuselage tank is--there are no words for it, but it seems to me that it's like letting the other guy dictate to you that you have to fight with one hand tied behind your back. I find that more often than not, as I am closing on the target I am
fighting my stick and sometimes my pedals trying to keep my pipper centered on target while the ball under the sight does its best pinball impression, something I rarely experienced flying a Dora or late model big gunned 109 in other campaigns. Of course, the fifties don't give you that deeply satisfying insta-kill 99.9% of the time either. You must either slow down or make multiple passes.
I have to wonder whether most people decide not to fly the Mustang in-game because it is so much extra work.
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