Flying the Hellcat compared to other warbirds?

[Punkmonkey22]

Which of the existing warbirds should the Hellcat be most similar to with realistic modelling? 

Just curious as I love the P-47 and I see a lot of similarity between the two birds in terms of specs and design.

[Ala13_ManOWar]

Probably none of them, but engine management wise it's obviously something relatively close to P-47 and F4U. I don't think any of the others would be anything even vaguely similar to compare to.

[kazak]

On 9/9/2025 at 4:52 AM, Punkmonkey22 said:

Which of the existing warbirds should the Hellcat be most similar to with realistic modelling? 

Just curious as I love the P-47 and I see a lot of similarity between the two birds in terms of specs and design.

It SHOULD fly like a Spitfire with Corsair engine controls. It should be able to out turn any of the other warbirds. Shouldn't be as fast as the F4U, but the Mag3 Corsair is so poorly modeled in DCS that I don't even know how to factor it in.

The Hellcat should outperform anything Japanese with energy maneuvers and it should be really close in turning. At near stall speeds, the zero will have a smaller turning radius but the Hellcat should never be at those speeds. You should be able to outclimb, outdive, and instantaneously outturn a zero provided you have enough energy to be at 6g's or so

[Mr_sukebe]

With its weight, I’d expect it to fly more like a P47, ie fast, but with worse turn rates than say a Spit.

i see to remember Greg suggesting that turn rate was directly related to stall speed, with the power level denoting how long you can maintain that for.

Edited 9 hours ago by Mr_sukebe