I'm always open to opinion, but when I wrote these pages I tried to look at each plane fairly objectively with the mind-set that the average pilot can only really extract about 80% of the performance out of a plane. Things like climb, top speed, well, those are not really skill related (climb can be) but for things like turn-rate it's really based on pilot skill and flight conditions. I'm certainly not completely familiar with every plane though, there are lots and some I've only flown a bit, but I've been around AH for a long time (since pay-to-play) so I've either been in a plane, or faced hundreds of them. That's where the comments come from. If anyone can offer tips/advice/impressions though, I'm all for it, since the more comments we can incorporate the better. I was a little hard on some planes, and I'm actually looking at reviewing a couple of them right now, but it takes time. I figure I spent a couple of hundred hours testing planes and writing HTML to get what's there right now.
I'm pretty sure WEP burns fuel at 2x rate. Try flying a Spit some time and use WEP a lot, your fuel with absolutely disappear. Without using WEP you can seem to cruise forever. Having multiple tanks makes for difficult judgements on fuel use since each tank has a different volume of fuel. Something with only 1 tank (Spit, La7, La5?) all seem to burn fuel twice as quickly with WEP on. Someone tested this at one point and came up with the double burn rate, and I thought that was accepted, but I haven't tested it myself recently.
Jag34, glad you found the site useful, and there is a lot of imformation to digest on it so make sure you check back often. I'll see what I can do about adding some GV information and PT's for a near-future release. They should be much easier to comment on than the planes since there are fewer variable factors involved. The whole idea of the site was to give newer, and intermediate, players a place to go and check out aircraft. It would help pick planes to fly, help with better ways to fly them, and help with ways to beat planes you were having problems with....
-Soda
The Assassins.
