Yo Student,
  Lately I've been hooked on 1930's aircraft, ya know fast bi-planes (almost 300 mph) and monoplanes with fixed landing gear.  Those pesky little aircraft were maneuverable as hell and some were very heavily armed, 50 cals. MGs and in some cases 20 mm cannon, could do alot of damage real fast.  For me nothing beats the thrill of trying to follow an I-15 through a split S!! 
  Also that period of time seems to have been over looked by many and aerial warfare in the skies over China and Spain forgotten, even though they set the stage for air combat in the Second World War.
  Runner up is jets with GUNS.  These were the last of the gun slingers. Be it a Mig-15 against a F-86 or a F-8 Crusader vs. a Mig-17 the spirit of the "duel in the air" was there.
  Either way its gotta be guns!  Missiles are to impersonal.

   
     

Denishc, You have a valid point.   8)   I have some of them there older flight sims for WW I and you are right them there more then one wing devils can turn. In the burn department they are a little slow however. (I think I could walk faster)  The one thing I noticed with them in a game is they seam to take so long to get from the air base to the war! No wonder they were stationed so close to the front!  

I'm with you on the missiles, and that was the point with the NFL statement. It is not a game unless you are in the trenches slugging it out!  

~S!  STU  

Props with Guns all the way!! I just love planes with big fans in front and a huge brace of machine guns in the wings! Using this rule I have gound my perfect plane!

Hawker Hurricane MkIIB/C/D

Yo P4,
  How about helo dogfighting!  Now there's a concept, I know some have talked about it but I've never seen it done.  Would it be like combat in zero g?

JETS

Quote:


This was in the Jokes section
"Helicoptors can't fly, they're just so ugly the Earth repels them" 

I'd like to see CFS4 as a cold war sim that takes place between 1945-1970. They should include aircraft like the Saber, Avro Arrow, Hawker Sea Fury, Avro Vulcan, MiG 15, odoo, P-80, etc. That way you'd get a healthy balace of prop and jet. I'd make the game dynamic like CFS3, it would start out historical but what you do effects the whole outcome of the war. For example, say your doing recon for the CCCP (USSR) and you accidentally blow up a US civilian target, this could lead to the US nuking Russia. The cold was is better the than late WWII environment of CFS3 because there were a million things that could have gone right/wrong.

Another thing that could happen is say your playing for Canada (Playable nations in my version would inculde US, Canada, UK, USSR, Korea, and Vietnam), in one game Canada might put the Arrow into production while it might not in another, make everything dynamic that's what people like. In my idea of CFS4, everything would be variable. We have the technology to do it so lets turn up the simulated heat on game play.