In AH the airplanes fly entirely too smooth. There's no jump, jitter or imperfection inherit in the various planes. Not to mention, some planes seem to defy gravity and physics and it's entirely too easy to stall fight.
Try stall fighting in IL-2, a much better overall and detailed game, it's much more difficult to both recover and maintain stability in otherwise unstable airplanes at lower speeds. And the phrase 'speed is life' means a lot more in that game.
The bombers in this game are a joke, far too easy to fly and with the ability to potentially aim 6 different gun turrets in a formation on the same area is just silly. The fact is if you lost control of your giant b-17 or b-24, or tried to make some silly turn, you would fall right out of the sky. The b-24 in particular was very difficult to fly and required constant correction and attention. Not to mention they are way faster than they should be especially at lower alts.
I like Ah2, it's fun, but I'd be careful calling it a simulator, particularly if the planes aren't modeled right! It's seems like propaganda really, the axis airplanes are nerfed. The 109 could drop flaps at 300 true and it wouldn't do justice to the 190 to say it was better than the P-47. It OUTCLASSED the p-47. P-51 pilots wouldn't engage Ki-84's, they were too dangerous and at some alts was FASTER. And the German guns were not as difficult to use as they are in this game, the 30mm was only 10% slower than the .50 post-muzzle, over distance I can understand the drop but not after 200 yards. The C205 is a good plane in this game, but like the 109, 190 and some Japanese planes, isn't right. It was a monster of an airplane in real life.
All of the planes in this game after all were excellent in their own right, at least in life. Plus some of them are completely backwards in this game. The Spit16 was a high alt fighter and the clipped wings didn't allow it to turn very well. In life, the Spit14 was the better turn fighter. They're backwards. The p47 outclasses the 190 in this game. That's backwards too. And the Brewster is probably the most outrageous of them all. If it was really that good, do you think it would have been replaced by the Wildcat? Or the P40? And how is it that the P-51B's 4 .50's don't seem nearly as powerful as the Brew's?
http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/
