Whats your background?
My background...
- Fw-190a-8 Manual - from July 1944 (both versions: in German and English - translated),
- "Butcher Bird. Fw-190" Edward Shacklady's - that's really an awesome book

- Monogram Close UP Fw-190,
- Monografie lotnicze, Nr17 i 18 Fw-190A/F/G (it's in polish),
- Memorandum Report On Fw-190 (Army Air Forces Materiel Command form 6th Dec 1943)
- Navy Test Report - Fw-190A-5/U4 - from January 1944
- some experience as a real pilot (aeroclub)
How long have you been flying/maintaining aircraft?
Well, long enough to see the difference between TD's FM and Aachen's from HSFX5.
I don't thing that TD's Fw-190 is all wrong. The plane flies well at high ATA (and hight engine RPM), but strange at low ATA.
I dunno lol. I can land the A-8 & D-9 at roughy 5km from base roughly 2000m altitude cruising at 400kph IAS, I can get down to 160kph IAS and land.
I didn't write down that landing was not possible. It's difficult and looks strange because the plane doesn't loose energy, even with gear down, full flaps and the throttle cut off. TD's Fw-190 approaches the strip like a B-17 bomber rather than the small plane with high wing loading
But IF you wanna talk about real, they been lots of fotos of 190's belly landing ( 1 or 2 blades bent, indicating non-powered flight usually).. I don't think they landed themselves. Just read the book "Operation Bodenplatte: The Luftwaffe's Last Hope". LOts of damage reports in there which include non-powered belly landings.
I didn't write down that the "belly landing" was not possible in Fw-190. I wrote that flying this plane without engine was extremely dangerous (in contrast to Spitfire). Pilots preferred to bail out rather than to belly-land the plane.
"Oper. Bodenplatte" is a quite different situation. After the strike, most of Luftwaffe planes were escaping/returning home at low altitude. When they were shot down, pilots didn't have time (and altitude) to bail out, so they had to belly-land. Can you imagine to bail out from the plane at 300 feet (around 100 meters)? I can't.
Overheating was overrated. Atoned to Pilot error most of time.
Yes, it was so overrated, that at the beginning of Fw-190 program RLM was considering to abandon it and Kurt Tank blamed BMW for designing the engine that had no practical use for powering a fighter aircraft
Guys, you didn't understand me. I don't want to "dog-fight" with you. I just want to explain my ponit of view. I'm not going to convince anybody to it too. You can think, what you want. Even that TD's FM is the best in the world and very close to the real plane. I don't really care about this.
In my opinion TD's Fw-190 FM is overmodeled (so it sucks). That's it.
Ps.
You say that TD wanted to do Fw-190 a perfect simulated plane... Really?
Why didn't the team correct flaps of the plane in the game (HSFX6 is 4.11 based) and the incorrect "combat flap" is still available?
According to the real Fw-190 manual, the pilot could choose only one of three positions:
- raised up,
- take off - 13 degree elevation (10 in other sources),
- landing - 58 degree elevation (60 in other sources)
Didn't TD know about it?
I don't buy TD's explanation. That is why I prefer to use HSFX5.