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The assumption here is that the P51 is the benchmark sim, and that E fighting is the best fighting. With all due respect, Hangtime, I think perhaps your Uncle's experience and your connection to the P51 has made you a little too biased.
Ask Gatt what plane should be the benchmark.
Or Leonid.
Or Hristo.
And I'm sure you will hear three different anecdotes as powerful as yours concerning the history and performance of their particular ride. Heck, the Finns even want Brewster Buffaloes (because they were so damn modern and good ). This is the point to anecdotal evidence; it is too subjective upon which to build a flight model. It can be used as evidence to send the programmer in a direction, but in the end the flight models can only be made with the only true constant- real-world physics.
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Excellent points.. absoulutely correct. Thank you.
Over the course of the last few months I've had some 1,500 rides in the P51D; and when it's turn and climb performance were reduced to the previous revisions level (key word here: REDUCED) I was quite content. I too thought the pony was too 'hot' and knew the FM would be revised. When we got to version 0.45 the Ponys performance seemed to be about where I thought it should be.
...... climb ability significantly reduced; it certainly was not the hottest climber in the sim by any means.
........ acceleration; nope, the Pony had no edge here either. In fact; getting the pony up to speed was an excercise in paitience.
......... It in no way resembled the historicly innacurate low speed turner it was previously in this sim. Ponys should not be Zekes.
.......... top speed?? Yes; it had an edge; I expected it to have an edge. The edge was reduced; no beef here.
........... Energy retention; yup; as with speed; I expected the plane to have an edge. It was one of the notable diffrences in this AC over it's contemporaries. Laminar wing; remember? This also saw change.
In short; it was and still is my opinion that the plane presented to us as the version 0.45 Mustang had finally had it's teeth pulled and the plane was about where It should be as far as FM feel and overall performance.
The Mustang I'm flying now in Version 0.46 has been detuned again; most notably in energy retention. Too far in my opinion.
And it is just an opinion... biased; it reeks with subjective observation unsupported by numbers. As I said initialy; I know I don't have a leg to stand on.
But I'll say it again anyway... this Pony don't feel right. The Pony in the revison immediately prior to this one did.
Sadly.. its unfortunate that I spent so much time in it in the previous versions. I wonder how I'd feel about the current plane walking into the sim today; flying it for the first time. Would I find it a lackluster performer having NOT had the experience of flying the Version 0.45 Stang?
Yup. I think so.
Excellent points from all of you.. really; I do appreciate the feedback.
I understand the point of historical perspective is very much predisposed to the eye of the beholder. Yes; I'm pre-disposed to view my fav plane as the benchmark for the sim.. and my perspective is assailble from many diffrent equally jaundiced points of view.
But I have to stand on one hill or another; I choose to stand on the entirely American presumption that the P51D was the pre-eminient E fighter of the war.. and in my humble biased opinion; this revisions P51d is not in keeping with that presumption.
Salute!
Hang
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