190A5
Superb roll rate. Good initial climb rate, but mediocre above 7-10k. Good initial turn rate, but bleeds e faster than most other planes. Handles pretty well at low speeds, although stalls aren't gentle and come up abruptly. Excellent elevator authority at all speeds; although excessive use of elevators at low speeds will result in a quick drop of a wing: pulling up from dives at low speeds is hazardous to say the least.
Not very fast, but good acceleration down low. Hi alt performance is very bad. Gun package is excellent with 4*20mm, although the ballistics leave some to be desired. A bit bouncy as a gun platform. General trim characteristics are excellent. Suffers from 1 ping engine dead bug. Will be outturned by just about anything in a sustained turn fight, including P47's and Typhoons. Not very good at hanging on the prop or keeping the nose up for low speed shots. Zoom climb is decent.
A8 is like a heavy A5, that's faster and packs a greater punch and turns even worse. Other characteristics are similar: one just needs to be a tad bit more observant about the speed and, as in the A5, keep it above 300 as much as possible.
190F8 is the LW jabo bird - supposedly an improvement to the æprevious LW birds. In actuality it isn't. It can take an additioal 4 50kg bombs, which will only kill ground vehicles with any regularity if dropped in pairs and if they hit *directly* on the target. Even then it's not guaranteed. The A8, with its awesome cannon package, has more bang for the buck, is more maneuverable, accelerates and climbs faster and overall is just better at the JABO role.
D9 is the hunstang. You die in this plane only if you lose SA - it's so fast that you'll forget basic ACM if you fly it too much; nose down, speed up, run and yer home safe. handles like an A8, but with much better speed, acceleration and very good zoom climbs. Gun package is a bit odd however; it seems to dffer from the other 190s. I personally have a very hard time hitting anything from dead 6 in the d9.
