[David603]

My main beef is the FM, will they make them realistic, or keep the politicaly correct FM of Il2. I am tired of having Zeroes hang with a F4U in a dive, or 109s doing the same with a P47, The under modeled 50 cal round. The list is to long to mention here. If you want a arcade game with balanced play then say that, but if you want realism, then lets have FMs that reflect the true capabilities and weakness of each plane

I'm not sure how the two examples you have listed are supposed to be politicaly correct, surely political correctness would favour the Allied aircraft?

Anyway, I very much doubt any Zero can hang with a F4U in a dive, when I do fly the Corsair against the Zero I exploit the Corsair's superior dive and top speed to get out of any trouble, and as for the example of the 109 following a P47 in a dive, then sure some of the late model 109s (G10/G14/K4) can match the Jug in the initial dive, but give it a couple of thousand feet and the P47 will be pulling away easily.

As far as the .50cal goes , you have a point there, but I think this is something to do with the Browning .50cal having been modeled to use Russian supplied amunition, as used by the Russian flown P40 and P39 that were the first planes in the sim to use this gun. Same applies for the .303 in many British aircraft.