To preface this post, I state this. I believe there are no dweeb planes, just dweeb pilots. There is not a single plane in the planeset that is the perfect ride which affords it's occupant a decided advantage REGARDLESS OF THE SKILL LEVEL OF THE PILOT. I define being a dweeb as the guy who HOs on a 1 v 1 merge (I don't get the desire to open the fight on a 50-50 move, then not try to fly to a position of advantage. That is about it. Picking (have better SA). Vulching (don't up from a capped field). Ramming (read the TA pages on the collision model).
I personally fly the K4, which now seems to be considered as a "dweeb ride". This I can't figure because it does not turn at high speed, it compresses. The MGs hit hard offline, not so much online, and the MK108 is very difficult to learn and become proficient. The plane has horrible low speed handling due to enormous torque. It bleeds E like a severed limb. To prove a point, in the offline area get a Brewster to 200 indicated off the runway and pull vertical at no more than 3gs. Try the same in a K4 with a 1000HP advantage. You will find they stall at similar altitudes, right around 2k. (Krusty, Lusche, and others who will frown on my unscientific experiment...bah its the best I can conjure as I don't have the CD for a K4). Its real advantages are in climb rate and speed, that is about it.
OK... so I am reading across the boards, this is a dweeb plane, that is a dweeb plane. Add to that a colorful conversation on 200 and country the other day about "dweeb" planes, so now I pose this question. What are the generally accepted "non-dweeb" rides? What plane, if you see someone land several kills in a sortie you go damn, that's cool?
My personal are:
38s...I can't fight them, too impatient.
K4...see above screed
SpitI/HurriI/P40s/P39s
Please throw your two cents in.......
