Yes the 262 is very easy to survive in, but if your SA is bad you can still get shot down, that was my point. In the Spit14 you must never dive after a fleeing enemy unless he flies a slower plane AND there are no other cons that can effect an intercept on you.
With no disrespect, to sum it up you're flying it "timidly". If you ever have any kind of success with it is because of your own management skills, which, would essentially be same with all aircraft types.
A lil' joke, but it's like Widewing, always saying how dangerous a SBD Dauntless is.. always saying how much fighters he kills with it. So, Widewing himself can manage something like a 10 K/D with the SBD. So is the SBD a perk material?
The whole point is, the Spit14 requiring THAT MUCH SA in the first place, evidently means its no perk material.
Take that 3vs1 situation you mentioned. You met a F6F or a F4U, which is by no means a "mainstream" MA fighter. If you met a La-7 and a N1K2 on deck, and another La-7 doing BnZ passes, honestly dude, do you think you could you have survived?
Are you that confident? Because, in most of average cases of average people that make up 80% of the arena, they'd say the odds of survival is quite unlikely.
Now, in that situation another La-7 could survive. A Bf109G-10 might survive. A Fw190D-9 or a P-51D would be harder to survive in if it loses E in the first place, but it would rarely get into that condition in the first place.
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The problem is not about whether a plane is used "right" or "wrong". In that simple analogy, practically the MA is full of people who don't/can't use planes the right way. They are the norm, the mass, and the basis which "overuse" is to be determined upon.
Remember -
it's because most average flyers don't have enough skill to stay alive in other planes, is why the "BigFour" planes are overused in the first place! So, likewise, the Spit14 as an MA plane, should also be assumed that a more or less average pilot is at control.
And in that case, would it be a more popular plane than the La-7?
I don't think so.
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Now, in turn, look at the Bf109G-10 or the P-51D, or the La-7. Those are very powerful planes. If everybody flew these free planes the way you did Scholz, people would want it perked.
I am willing to bet, that if the Bf109G-10 was a perk plane from the beginning, you would test it out and say the same thing about it as the Spit14, and comment that it deserves a perk.
But they're not perked. They're free. Some fly it timidly, but others who venture and risk more in the MA environment, also die a lot in it. And despite all that, the La-7 or the P-51D is more likely to survive dangerous situations than the Spit14, due to its raw speed.
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Again, basically, if a plane like the La-7 is in the arena unperked, then there's no justification in perking a Spit14. And that's the alpha and omega of this discussion.
