[canonuk]

It would unbalance the game because every aircraft has been downgraded in the game. Therefore, if the Spitfire was put in as it's true values it would be seriously advantaged over all aircraft. So, to keep the balance, it's fine-tuned so that it's appropriate to the entire sim.

The only alternative is to go through and manually edit every single flight model so that it's 'true-to-life', but then not only does that mean hours of work, but also that you'd need new slots for the aircraft to preserve online integrity,