I'm serious.
I didn't know if Aces High was that realistic...It appears it is. In real life you always drained the left wing tank on a Corsair first. At least if you were serious about having the plane at its best balance.
With the corsair I was concerned about the wing dipping on a stall and not sure if it would affect "rolling over the top" of a loop or Immelman. It seems to get really unstable for me if I'm looping under 250. In the corsair training video that's all over the internet the original F4U-1 (not the A) could loop easily at less speed....At least in the video......
The Corsair takes a steady hand, use of flaps, and especially use of rudder to keep her stable throughout the speed range, but once you get that down she's one of the best low-speed birds in the game. Being able to use that stall to your advantage helps immensely, too.
9/10 times that I'm flying a Corsair, I take 50 fuel plus the drop tank. That gives you more than enough time to get to a fight, have some fun, and get back home (at that setting, there is no gas in the wings). If I want more time to loiter, I take 75 and a drop tank, and then burn off both of my wing tanks first. That gives you a few more minutes on the main.
Some guys like to leave a little fuel in the right wing tank to both help stabilize the plane, and to give them an emergency reserve. I don't do this for a few reasons:
- I never did before, and I learned how she "feels" without it; and
- It is not an economical way to practice in the DA (it takes time to burn it--time that could be better spent learning to fight).