29.01.2010, 07:19
LOL I can't believe that after so many years of debate over this kind of silly question there's still someone wasting time over it!
It's not a matter of which plane is better, it's the pilot and his skills, together with the tactical situation, that make a difference.
The features of a plane are like a short blanket: you have to leave something uncovered. The skill of a pilot is learning these special features and use them to his advantage in combat.
A couple of years ago I introduced a good friend of mine to IL-2, we did a quick combat, he was flying a P-51D and I was flying a Cr.42!
He had moderate experience back then, while I had long experience both in the sim and in real life flying, so all I had to do was "dragging" him down to my level of fight, where the Cr.42 had an advantage (low speed high manouverability), and I shot him down. He made a serie of mistakes that brought the result, so what did I demonstrate, that a Cr.42 is better than a Mustang? Hardly.. It's skills and tactical situation, only that..
You can spend hours talking about the features of each single plane and compare them to the other, it's just theory..
It's not a matter of which plane is better, it's the pilot and his skills, together with the tactical situation, that make a difference.
The features of a plane are like a short blanket: you have to leave something uncovered. The skill of a pilot is learning these special features and use them to his advantage in combat.
A couple of years ago I introduced a good friend of mine to IL-2, we did a quick combat, he was flying a P-51D and I was flying a Cr.42!
He had moderate experience back then, while I had long experience both in the sim and in real life flying, so all I had to do was "dragging" him down to my level of fight, where the Cr.42 had an advantage (low speed high manouverability), and I shot him down. He made a serie of mistakes that brought the result, so what did I demonstrate, that a Cr.42 is better than a Mustang? Hardly.. It's skills and tactical situation, only that..
You can spend hours talking about the features of each single plane and compare them to the other, it's just theory..