actually most comments i have heard over in WB from AH transplants is that it is too hard and they leave ...
that is very understandable, there have been alot of people who have left AH and went to other "easier" flight sim FM's
also i do not explore the games beyond real world ACM much so in regards to the relative tricks, i admit i am not so familiar with those. ...
so if you limit yourself to what you have read from history of WWII combat flight AAR's or to what the training manual says for WWII aircraft, then you will never find out what the Extreme limits of these planes "flight envelope" truely are...... seriously... if all the Combat fighter pilots of WWII had the same amount of "seat time" in the planes we get to simulate flying in these flight sims, I am certian they would have found what these birds of prey could really do......
i am not sure why and i am not sure where the "accuracy" advantage lies but in regards to the flaps ...
their use in combat was not at all as it is being used in the game and investigations will show anyone who cares to look why.
for the most part, most WWII pilots that flew fighters never had the chance of 10,000+ hours of seat time to learn the complete in's and out's of their particular plane....... True, noone dies in this or any other flight sim game, but on the other hand if they had simulators like we have today, back then, then it would be completely different writing in the history books....... we can only imagine of what the difference would be....
and if you want to research it, you can find youtube videos and/or reports of P-38s, F4Us, P51s, 109s, etc etc....... to where they were tested and pushed to the limits.......... some even in our time of today....... ever been to see the USAF Thunderbirds or the USN Blue angels? and they do that stuff with Jets, imagine what they could do in WWII prop planes......... food for thought.....
