Old flight model had so many issues to it, if you played you know already. The only people who "mastered" the old flight model is those who spent a minimum of 2,000+ hours in AC. In contrast, those who spent ONLY (lol) 500 hours training would still get crushed because of how unintuitive and obtuse the flight model was. The only way to do well was to spend thousands of hours training to unlearn natural habits and force yourself into the niche mindset of what the old flight model dictated you to do. Go watch A1 videos, he even says things like "you owe the game thousands of deaths before you get better." Does that sound fun to you? Does that sound like a rational expectation for a video game? LOL. My advice: Stop listening to the folks who spent the past several years grinding to 'no-life' an alpha game. These people have forgotten the meaning of life and that this game is still in development and testing. You gotta be a clown to believe the old flight model was good for Star Citizen.