I am not very excited about this either. Although I suppose this will appeal to a lot of folks to see this in the DCS environment, there are also many us that have experienced the P-51D in many other sims. Even the old P-51D in Warbirds was a handful compared to the offering in recent sims, so I've had my fix of a wild donkey ride.

I hope that this venture will be a success for the DCS series, but its not quite what I was looking forward to. I will not be picking this one up unless it forms part of an environment such as Korea. I love the P-51D, but I love modern aircraft even more.

This could be interesting if they clarify the intentions of the flying legends series, if they intend to release a BF-109 or a FW-190 (D version please!!) then I think we will eventually have a very well featured WWII dogfight sim, but until then the P-51 will be the odd man out in the series where the A-10 and the KA-50 seem to work so well together.

You haven't experienced this P-51

Uhhh...because the developer announced on their forums that the next one was 'Battle for Moscow'?

I just don't see the CloD series failing. While CloD has some issues, it's already a far better game than IL-2 for the aircraft and theater it models. It's just that the aircraft and theater it models are very narrow at present, but that's changing.

Where did ED say that this is just an ADD ON Flyable to DCS A10C/BS2? I would imagine it would be a standalone release, with its own, missions, campaigns, enemies and allies correct for that period.

"While the P-51D started as an internal technology demonstration, it has evolved into an independent product that adds an all new dimension to the DCS universe."

"The P-51D will be the first aircraft in the Flying Legends series"

I highly doubt ED would build these aircraft without a period environment for them to fly in. That would make no sense whatsoever.

I think ED just entered the WWII combat sim arena.

Since all the planes fly on the DCS engine, why not have the ability for them all to fly together in a multiplayer environment? Why would they not? I guess that would be up to the mission designers to figure out how that will work..

LoL, this is going to be a sim that I buy, try to fly around for a few weeks. Might even get her off the ground once or twice, then try to turn, stall, spin, die, get mad and throw stuff, do it all over again tomorrow. Should, and I mean should, I ever actually land, I will give up on sims forever. Safe to say, it'll never happen, but I will still buy this one no doubt. They ever come along with an F6F in this 'Flying Legends series' and that will be a day one buy for me as well.

If there indeed now two teams working on the DCS line I would have preferred one to keep the Lock On line going and the other to focus on DCS with modern aircraft. While nice to fly, without the proper setting and units it would be missing a lot.

Corsair next pls

What he said!

I mean... It's a P-51D for the love of everything holy! :-) Just being able to fly it in the upcoming Nevada scenery will be a blast. If they take this further to to a Korea or WWII venture, GREAT! We'll see...

But whatever! The leading hi-fi flightsim developer just announced a new aircraft for me to play with! :-D

Agreed and After the COD debacle I trust ED they have never let me down