There is no difference in handling at or close to stall speed that I can detect. Until proven otherwise I'll continue to think it's all in your head. No offense intended.
No offence taken at all, this is only a discussion about cartoon planes. However, my main issue with your standpoint has been that one cannot 'feel' anything about the handling in this game.
What 10-20 mph then? If the fight is slow, both on are the same footing acceleration wise. The La-7 won't suddenly gain 10-20 mph over the La-5 from the same start. Only when the fight is already very fast the La-7 enjoys that speed advantage. But one one disputed the latter one.
I am not disputing that, I only accurately repeated a quote from someone else that you only half repeated.
And some people will just either assume or make up anything about others not sharing the same subjective perception over handling instead of arguing on topic. Like I said "cheap shots", as "have you ever deliberately flown a plane at the edge" was a loaded question from the start.
That is not a cheap shot. It is a genuine question. I have never been disrespectful to you in the long time I have known you in this game, why would I start now? Perhaps you need to ask yourself why I even had to ask you that question. Why is it that I am in doubt that you have done these things with nearly a decade of knowing you and seeing you fly in the MA?
And I don't even said "there is no difference in handling". That would be an absolute statement, which I didn't feel entitled to. I very much made clear it's just a subjective statement:
Oh, and I actually took them both out in the TA to explore they slow speed maneuverability and stall behaviour again before I wrote that, just to make sure my memories from dogfights in the main or the TA didn't fool me.
Actually, this started when I was told 'you cannot feel any difference in handling between them, you are imagining it'
Your test is 90% useless. To recreate a real environment I will offer that we both spend a few hours fighting intensively. Perhaps 30-40 fights in a row in each plane individually. Then again mismatched, you in the 5, me in the 7, then visa versa. Only then will we each begin to have a realistic understanding of what the edge of each plane's flight envelope
feels like.
I will not post in this thread again because all we will do is go in circles. Consider my offer of TA/DA time. We might both learn something. It might even be fun.
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