strip off all fuel it screws up the center of gravity that will make u turn properly.

of course the best thing to do is to fly a real plane try a spit or tempest

Many WWII pilots agreed with you...they felt that the B was a better plane than the D.

The fuel comment is correct...the 'Stang has a fuel tank behind the seat that pushes the CofG too far to the rear for manuevering. Drain some of the fuel out and the 'Stang should fly fine.

See August 2003 Flight Journal, The Best WWII Fighter, by Corky Meyer.

Corky Meyer was a Grumman test pilot F-4F-3 - F-14 and lived to write about it.
He rates the P-51 no 4 of 7 Europe.  "but they had two rather outstanding vices: poor lateral stall characteristics give them a strong tendency to enter snap rolls when in a landing-condition final turn and during gunnery runs in the clean condition. If you pulled hard at the wrong time, it was all too willing to snap over the top of the turn into a spin."

The 51 had a laminar flow wing. At least the first foot or so was laminar.  Get to Angle Of Attack where the flow is not laminar and nasty things happen.

Keep speed up as much as possible and careful of G.

It is a poor flyer in CFS3.  Better in CFS2.

Drain the P51 fuel load to 30% to make it really fly. I think with the Fw190 you've just got to treat it carefully and not pull a turn to suddenly.

Woodlouse

You are right on fuel and performance effect.

I set 50 percent in the 3US-P47D 2 ton truck and it made the fighter a 1 ton truck.

I had the CFS2 F4F-4 full fuel for 1 v1 Zero.  Reset to 50% and now their slim chances are slim to none.  That isn't realistic but this is a sim.

50% fuel is reasonable for dogfights 1 v 1.  Gives 5 min at combat power and bug out.

codered

Describe your use of physics pls.

On 1 v 1 dogfighting:

It's a sim; not the real deal so stay and play.  Otherwise, what's the point?

CFS3 AI is pretty weak on tactics. CFS2 is better.

Going to 30 percent on fuel, for example, is an indication of how poorly the CFS3 US fighters, with exception of the Spit,  fly given weak AI.  Even after the significant improvement in the AvHistory models.

One of the problems I have is poor pitch control, pitch slider full left, and frame rates 30 - 40.  The problem is in the design and not in the system.

pliabos

You must be very busy with a slide rule using math and physics in a dogfight.

Not being a sim expert in dogfighting tactics this is the way I see it.

Modern, not WWII, theoretical fighter tactics is the use of kinetic and potential energy better than the bandit to achieve a firing position.  Translation is the skillful use of the vertical.  It is also the coordinated tactics of a section to concentrate on a single bandit for a few seconds to achieve a kill.

John Boyd, a Korean War USAF fighter pilot, is credited with defining the concept.  "Gengis John" The Figher Pilot Who Changed the Art of War, Amazon and other places for you fanatics.

Serious application of his theory were the essence of Top Gun and USAF Fighter Weapons School.