SE5a flies better than ever. Stop whining and make an effort to fight with your brain and not simple reflex.

Why don't you post something useful and explain how. That was the purpose of this thread.

The planes are good, in the right hands...those hands are not mine, lol. But I still go up as often as I can anyway! Maybe one of these days I will figure out how to not die in every fight I wind up in

I've come to the conclusion that Allied planes stink!

Their wings rip off
Their engines get damaged super easy (throw sand at them)
They are twitchy as heck so you can't aim
Half of them have one gun!

I switched to German planes and all my problems went away. I'm killing people every flight almost in them. In Allied planes, maybe one kill every ten flights.

This is even after spending months mastering the Camel, which, is NERFED online with 60% fuel. What's the stupid point. German planes are utterly noob friendly as I have almost zero seat time in them and can kill like crazy compared with lots of hours in allied planes. This is all online.

You must not be flying on Syndicate. In the last month of statistics there the Entente shot down more despite flying fewer sorties.

I'm not saying you're right, Blastman, but I definitely prefer the German planes over the Allied planes. I can't do crap in almost all of the Allied planes, but I find the German planes fit my style very well.

I really can't wait for the Albatros and Pfalz D3a flight models to be revised. We'll see how easy a pitch sensitive, poor rolling Albatros is to fly in circles. The present DII and DVa are way too stable in pitch and hardly adverse yaw at all, it's no wonder the Central crates have an easy fly rep with these two yank and bank crates. They should be faster though

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any sign from the devs that an Albatros FM review is on the cards.

Sounds like the RoF D.VII (mercedes).

That's a huge part of the problem--it's easy as CAKE to aim with the German planes. It's utterly impossible to hold your guns on target with the allied planes because they are sooooo twitchy.

Mr. Blastman, you know why I ripped into you earlier? Because you make blanket statements that come off as whines, and now you're doing it again.

Mogster has it right. There are a few German aircraft that are ridiculously docile in flight: the Albatros D.II, D.Va, and Pfalz D.IIIa. On the flip side, the Fokker Dr.1 and D.VIII are two of the twitchiest aircraft in the sim. In the middle are the two D.VIIs (which are both pitch sensitive and sluggish in roll) and the Albatros D.III. There's also the Pfalz D.XII which is a flying tank that is easy to spin; it only becomes a good scout above 3km.

It's ironic that the SE5a is one of the most stable, easy to aim scouts in the sim, because that's the aircraft you started your whine with. If you began with some objective observations and a genuinely open mind you would learn a lot more and ultimately have more fun with your sim time.