When I first started I was told to fly the spits cause they were easy. I couldn't agree more to that fact. Why don't you see some of the best pilots in this game fly spit 16's. It's too easy for them. I have a squaddie who won't fly a 16 cause its too easy. He'd rather fly corsair or P-38. When he does fly a spit it's notheing for him to land 5-8 kills. Well he does that in many other planes too. I love the Mosquito and it is a hard plane to fly then switched to P38. I'll take a mosquito anyday due to my like of gunnery. Spit 5's are fun to fly but I ultimately love the 8 with wing tanks. I do feel though that flying the spits for almost a year did hurt me trying to swich over to american planes with 50cals.