ORIGINAL: nick_onelove
OK, I'm a little intimidated, but I think you guys have convinced me on the P-51.
I do have RealFlight and when I mess around with the planes it does seem almost comically easy, so much so that I don't think the simulation can be as accurate to real life as it is with heli's.
Actually it's the other way around.
If you find heli's realistic in Realflight, the planes are doubly so... often exhibiting second and third order quirks and effects in a predictive modeling fashion... much more than any other sim...
However planes are affected by winds more than heli's are so you are advised to practice with the sim, with the winds dialed up to about 12mph with about a 20% micro turbulence, and a 20% turbulence/variability. Also set the turbulence ceiling as high as possible.