I dont post here very often, but I'd like to thank Team D. for volunteering their time, with 1C's approval, to make future patches for our favorite sim.
Please don't be afraid to work flight model issues, as there is zero controversy over a 1C - accredited group making those (or any other) changes. However, I completely understand your reasons for not wishing to discuss these issues on an open forum.
The sim already has many, many planes. More planes are nice to have, but I hope your priorities will become fixing the old. I moderate a forum elsewhere which discusses aircraft performance in game, and despite the inevitable arguments its a good thing that players are so interested in the sim that they will spend hours testing stuff and discussing the results. I think its one of the reasons we are all still here.
From those comments on that other forum, the major issues raised are what I'd call the consistency of aircraft performance 'within' the type and obviously the comparisons 'between' types. We also have a great deal of debate on the accuracy of the FM in areas such as stalling, spinning, and low speed high power flight regimes.
Good examples of things that leap out are:
1) Spitfire energy retention in tight turns
2) The relative performance of the 109G2 vs the 109G6
3) The relative performance of the A8 vs the A6, A5, and especially the A5-1.65
...so I hope you share my interest in those issues. Wishing you all the best and look forward to seeing your work.
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