Combat Flight Simulators

[CreepColony]

Well, when I first got into gaming, it was around when my dad owned a computer store. This isnt so anymore because he literally got robbed out of business. But anyway, around this time is when I first got Starcraft. It was quite literally one of the first few PC games I've ever played! Starcraft will always have a place in me and so on and so forth. But I must digress here that this thread is about a different type of PC Game: Combat Flight Sims.

I saw my dad playing Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, the first one I think. I got interested because I was young and my dad did it so I wanted to try it out myself. Well, I got hooked on them and I now play Combat Flight Simulator 2 a lot. Does anyone else have and play any combat flight sims such as this? I don't think I'm just one weird gamer who plays an off the wall game type!

Also, I have a question for anyone that does play combat flight sims:
Do you think that Combat Flight Simulator 3 is a terrible game? They did... *SOMETHING* to the planes and they seem impossible to fly. The German F-109G seems to out manouver and completely dominate a P-51D Mustang! Now, anyone that knows their history knows that the P-51 was an extraordinary plane that turned the tides of air combat in the European theater, and had its share of ass kicking in the Pacific as well.

[singo]

. The German F-109G seems to out manouver and completely dominate a P-51D Mustang!

Be fair, the F-109 WAS the most agile fighter in Europe in WW2 (I think). Didn't have the range of the mustang and I am not sure about the speed, but I am pretty sure it was more agile.

[CreepColony]

Yeah I said that without clarifying more, I do give the F-109 some credit... that beast was might agile! I meant that in the game, the P-51D is as manouverable as a B-52. If you move the stick any farther than half an inch the plane goes into an immediate stall. The mustang CAN indeed go into a tight turn... it CAN perform quite the large amount of airodynamics. This game makes the plane seem like a bucket full of bricks with an engine.

EDIT: I might have insulted the B-52 with what I just said... so I'll clarify again, I'm sure the B-52 can perform more manouvers than Combat Flight Sim 3's P-51D can do in a lifetime.