Wow… False Advertising?
He didn’t say they don’t have unique flight models. He said the only way, in the real world, that the higher speeds are attained is because the engines are modified to handle higher manifold pressure without exploding. Here, rather than changing the engine parameters, it sounds like they attained the differences in flight model by changing the flight model, but didn’t include the higher power engine parameters.
Let’s also remember that, in race mode, all the planes have the same performance. It’s only in free flight mode that the various unique flight model characteristics come to light.
Granted, it sounds like they attained the various differences in how each of the planes fly likely through adjusting drag, or maybe higher powered engines at the normal manifold pressure, and other parameters in the flight model. Technically, this is incorrect, true, it would be better if they modeled the actual differences in the engines appropriately. In the end, though, how they set the game up is their choice.
False advertising, however, no, not in any way shape or form. The planes do have different flight characteristics. They never said the engines would be modeled down to their exact specifications. Why be so inflammatory?
Great post @JohnnyT5000 … I love all the detail, very interesting. Posts like yours are what makes this forum fun!