I did some dogfighting in the 152 last night.
Total POS. I used to love it (before the airflow recoding) and used to fly it tons. Since the airflow recoding I've only dabbled in it for some bomber hunting, so I hadn't noticed how bad it is.
It's 5x worse than the old mossie was. You can't get into level flight, almost. Even if you GET to level flight, you pull up even gently as a baby, and you will fishtail ALL OVER the ***** place! FORGET freaking pulling angles and dogfighting, it's unstable in almost ALL situations!!!!! I had shots on a spitfire over half a dozen times but could NOT get a kill because I was fighting the plane 100% of the time! Oh, and this was IN trim, not out of trim! (I've got aileron and elevators mapped to axis on my throttle quadrant, easy peasy for me to adjust trim on the fly).
In the end I popped Mr spitfire, but only after closing to 40 yards dead astern, wasting most of my 30mm ammo and half my 20mm, I called it quits and went to land.
Only, wait, that's right! It's so damn unstable you CAN'T LAND it! Sweet, gentle, landing, came down perfectly... I'm using rudder to keep centered, I've pulled back, tail down, lock the wheel, hit the brakes button, and
yup
I teeter out of control, smash both wings into the ground and come to a rest with the shaking stutter that leads me to believe the Fw190 spontaneous explosion bug is about to take place. I tower out barely avoiding a spontaneous explosion, halfway off the runway. Luckily I was a hair more on the runway than off, and it was a safe landing.
Take a 109K4 or a 190D. Leave the crappy 152. It needs to be removed from the game until they FIX the problems they introduced. In AH1 it used to rock. In AH2 it was nerfed but flyable. In post 2.06 airflow recode, it's unflyable and unfightable.
