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Welcome!

Most U.S. aircraft share a particular trait, the ability to dive well and pick up tremendous speed. Make sure you have trimmed your plane so that you are not having to give rudder, aileron or elevator input. Yes, it's a demanding process and you will constantly trim the elevator, but that's how real pilots did it. Keep your throttle wide open and adjust prop pitch so that the engine does not over speed, but maintains a safe rpm. That's about all you can do as each aircraft will at some speed reach the point at which air compression forces will buffet the airframe and eventually lock up the control surfaces or simply rip away wing or tail surfaces.

But the question is why is his plane not tearing apart as mine was shaking tremendously at that speed and why was he not losing speed? He did not have enough dive altitude I think I was at 1500m and he was at about 500m.

I have read about trimming the aircraft, what is the best way to trim it. For instance when I am flying level I trim it to fly level, but when I enter combat mode do I have to trim again or continue fighting with the trim that was set for level flying?

Do I release all the trim when in combat? Also I notice that on some planes I cannot set the aileron trim.

Thanks for your help fella's

Not all airplanes are created equal, the U.S. aircraft, both historically and in this sim, are simply impressive in a dive. They generally cannot turn tightly and not all of them have good climbing capability, but they dive very, very well.