It is great for dumping E for a nice sharp hard turn and a nice hard-punching guns setup, though. Those two together mean a pilot with a little SA can wreck shop against the unwary.
This can be said of any plane. Is that the qualifications for Perk plane?
Take a P-39 up and dive the unary. It's one of the best high speed turning planes in the MA, it has a 37mm cannon, 4 50 cals. PERK it!
The things that make planes special...or great...or better..or what ever adjective you want to use...
1) Top speed.
2) low speed turn rate.
3) Gun package.
4) Bomb/Rocket load.
If it's going to be perked, it should be in the top 10% of 3 out of 4 of these.
Gun package rank. I see it as 1@30mm=2@20mm=6@.50cal.=12@.30cal
JuG M:
Top Speed =High It's faster than everything above 20K, but it's slower than the 109K4, Dora, and Tempest below 20K, and Slower than the P-51 and La7 below 10K.
Low Speed turn Rate = Low most planes will out turn it. Yak3, Spitfire, N1ki, Ki-84, F4u, Hurricane, Ki-67, P-38, C-205, and on and on...
Gun Pack = Mid: middle of the pack firepower [w/6 50cals] on par with the Ki-84 and Spitfire, and equal to the pny, corsair and P-38. Way behind, the 262, Typhie, N1ki, C-hog, 109G [Gondies), Mossie, 110, 410, La7[3@20mm]
Ordinance = Low: Doesn't carry rockets or bombs.
2 lows, a mid and high doesn't add up to a perk plane.
