Mixed feelings on the 410. It accelerates slowly and takes a long time to get to its relatively decent top speed. Climb rate is so so. It has relatively poor elevator authority and does not pull out of a fast dive very well. If you lose one of the two elevators, your hosed, because it then really sucks in turns and I mean bad.
It’s fairly good for stall fighting, but by no means a turn fighter. I can certainly see this being the choice bird for porkers however who are looking to level bases. But I find them easy to kill, so yippee!!!
When fighting 410’s, what I'm finding is they will generally try hard to turn into you to HO you, depending on the devastating canon load and start spraying from 1200 out. I'm mean the freaking thing carries 1500 20 mm's!! Plus a set of four decent machine guns (more than 6 spits)!!
They will fight vertically, until they start getting slow, then expect the 410 to fall off rapidly to the right. Spin recovery is similar to the Mossie and even the flat spin is pretty easy to get out of. At low speeds, while scissoring, it has the same nasty habit of FW's which is to snap over inverted at low speed, close to the ground. Gets ugly fast!
Overall, I think they will end up being nice crunchy fighter snacks.
PS., if you aren't paying attention, the 410's rear guns might scratch your planes paint.
