The CFS3 P-51D is a dog.  Av History a much better dog than the MS dog but still a dog.

The CFS2 P-51D 1 percent is a very nice flying fighter.  No stall problems, handles well, and accelerates very well in dogfights vs the 1 percent Zeke.  Only downer is that the guns don't shoot into the pipper center at 1 G.

I used the Jerry Beckworth Aim It to harmonize the guns at 700 ft and 10 ft elevation.  Better, but not as it should be.

Ok, so you SH types prefer 200 ft harmonization. So be it.

The P-47 CFS3 is a super dog.

Haven't tried it in CFS2.  Zeke would eat it alive 1 v 1.

Wildcat is not a "heavy" fighter, reality or sim.

F4F4 my fav in CFS2 for dogfighting Zekes.  Major deficiency is lack of power. 

Real world not a match to the Zeke.

What if: F4F4 w/2 20mm Colts plus 200 rounds each.  A killer combination.

CFS3 P-51Dog flys good at zero fuel I'd wager.

nickle i mean, try to imagine what enemy will do and use geometry in the air to gain advantage on him. most pilots r just follwing the target cone instead. i am flying in real life and i think u can learn emergencies, systems, prosedures etc. but FEELING it , is different . (sorry about my english )

And, if you properly apply the kinetic energy in the P-47D, amazingly enough it becomes very deadly.  Ask me how I know, I have the screen shots to prove it. 

I think that a drastic increase in pilot skill is needed for the majority of combat flight simmers, who have never flown a combat aircraft, or any aircraft for that matter.

Yeah, please tell us.  Are you a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons School or something?

The P-47 in CFS3 is the worst of the Allied fighters.  It is just too slow and unmaneuvareable.  When flying a German plane, I always view the P-47 as just target practice.

KE doesn't mean anything.  It's power to weight that makes a fighter good.  P-47 has good power, but also very high weight.  You could have all the KE in the world, but if the airplanes you are dogfighting can out-climb you (and pretty much all the fighters in the game can, as they have better power-to-weight), you can never get near enough to use your guns, so KE doesn't mean anything.  All the P-47 can do it run away by diving.

KE is just the energy of movement, not position.  I believe "energy management theory" also includes the energy of position, or potential energy.  KE by itself is meaningless, since speed is the only thing that matters (mass isn't going to make much of a difference.).  So saying using KE properly just means using speed properly is rather simple--faster=better, or don't go slow--wow, amazing insight.  But the P-47 is the slowest fighter.  It can only go fast if it dives--but that is taking advantage of PE, not KE, or rather, converting PE into KE.

The P-47 may have been good in real life, but only because it could dive and run away easily.  This severly limits when it is useful.  Escorting strategic bombers was the most important use of U.S. fighters in World War II.  So if all your escorts can do is run away, they are worthless.  The Allies didn't dominate the air when only the P-47 and P-38 were available.  It took the Mustang to do that.  The Grumman test pilot is probably just speaking in terms of strictly dogfighting, not the strategic necessity of certain fighters being able to fight it out and not run away.

Anyway, in the game, diving and running way is almost worhtless because AI/you is basically omniscient.  They will almost always catch up to you eventually--you can't hide, and you can't run for long.  Since you can select/target enemy airplanes, they can't hide from you either.

I don't see what all the fuss is about.  I have the defualt FDs installed and I recently made myself up a mission as an escort to Germany and back.  I ended up in a dogfight with about 80% fuel.  I still managed to drive off a formation of 109s and even destroy one.

It's all about what you can do with the plane and your wingmen.  Never forget that WW2 pilots never flew alone in a dogfight!  There wingman was always with them.  Also, dogfights as such were best avoided.  The idea was to get more altitude and speed than the enemy and dive out of the sun, picking off a couple of planes before you were even seen, then bug out.  Remember this won't be possible in Quick Combat because it's an actual dogfight.

All this physics nonsense... ...really, pilots in WW2 were usually young boys, barely into there 20s.  They couldn't care less about lectures and stuff like that.  If they got killed it meant they were bad fighter pilots, but there's no such as a bad fighter pilot, therefore if they got killed, they weren't really a fighter pilot at all...get my drift?

What I mean is that if you can't shoot down a 109/190 before they get you and then you go blaming it on the plane, you must suck at the game. 8)

Why do you think you always get told to use your wingmen wisely before each mission?  And why do two always peel off when you give the order to attack?  Understand now?

And who says I cant climb with the 109-10's