Nonsense. Most people can't fly the P-51 to save their lives. I'm barely even beginning to figure the thing out after six years of trying. Getting killed is part of the process.
When you log on to an empty arena after being away for three weeks it is a real nut crusher to be ENY'd out of a ride you've been looking forward to flying.
ENY has its place, but as the game has evolved...ENY has NOT. "Well we've always done it this way..." is not an answer.
IF you fly a P51D you can pretty much be untouchable if you, like some pilots here do in Main Arena, fly it as a 20k boom-zoomer.
If you dogfight in it, it's a different ballgame, and other planes not only out-turn you, but also have other parameters going for them.
Game has evolved due to new planes, and lower numbers, flying as a team in La-7's, P51D, 190Doras, give you an edge that is hard to beat if you don't make mistakes.
Even older planes flown as a team can be deadly.
I still have a vivid memory of me and Trogdor fighting a large bunch of Knights a years ago, flying A5's, both surviving, and landed what remained of our shaken but not stirred coffins.
Other times our team get shot down to the last plane, due to tactical, and strategic mistakes, and sometimes overwhelming numbers, or flown by capable experts (or both) . I don't mind getting shot down as long as I have fun doing it and I get a bit of adrenaline rush.
But to be map-rolled by ENY 5 and perked planes outnumbered 1:3 or worse, don't give me anything of a fair chance regardless of the birds I can fly, or the birds I normally fly (A8, A5, 109G).
Someone stated online "2:1 makes anyone look good" and its true to a large extent, if you on-top of that fly uber-rides it does not make it any better for the adversary's.
My team have successfully defended a field heavily outnumbered, just to see 3 other of our fields get captured just because of numbers, if you add enemy ENY 5 planes to the soup, you just make it even worse.