More information about the flaps: The take-off flaps already give some nice maneuverability buff to your planes without much loss of speed and only rip at 800 km/h. This is what I call the “soft flap” and can be used in extended combat situations to lose less speed while still keeping some maneuverability. The landing flaps on the other hand make you turn incredibly well, like almost Spitfire-level of turning, but they’re extremely fragile, ripping at 320 km/h, so you have to put great care into switching it on and off when you’re going above the speed limit. This is what I call the “hard flap” and should be used more in maneuvers, extended turning fights (only do turning fights with planes that are not particularly good extended turners) or whenever you’re confident that you can put your guns on the target (since your firepower can make you easily one-shot planes or to critically injure them once you hit them).
And for Fw 190s that I can recommend flying are (and I’d say are actually viable in the current meta): A-1, A-8/F-8 and all the Dora variants (they each have different strengths). For any Fw 190 that’s not the A-8/F-8, make sure to side climb at the start of the match, because you need altitude at all cost and you’re not a particularly good climber.
Most of the time, flaps should only ever be used in dogfighting situations and even then, only sparingly. The Fw 190 and Ta 152 (basically an elongated Fw 190, can recommend the H-1 version too) on the other hand straight up lose half of their combat capability if they rip, so you need to put a big focus on proper flap usage (don’t use them in a dive tho, it can hurt your turning in that case). Also, there are only a few planes for which the flaps actually increase the sustained turn rate according to Defyn’s flap video and both the Fw 190 and Ta 152 happen to be those planes simply, because their engine is powerful enough to overcome the speed loss of both the flap and the faster turning.
In SB, not RB but physics are the same and only diff is no warning - safest (not necessarily most efficient or impactful) way I found to using flaps in my 109F4/g14, mustangs Ia and yak9/3 was to enable them just before (vertical part) and on the top of my turn (ergo - I’m at my slowest) and try to use being on the top to either go for pulling lead or try to gain a more dominant position. Doing this I only tend to rip flaps if I get spooked and forget to retract them. Basically, try to follow this video when I’m not too overwhelmed by stuff happening and my brain turning off: tactical egg.
Play the mig 3s. Then go back and play the bf109s.
They have aweful energy retention and have a longer turn time than a dang bf110.
The fw190s at least have a decent initial turn rate about on par with stuff like the p47 and p51. Sure you lose out in an energy fight but thats why you play to the planes strengths. If you cut your throttle and pop flaps you can get a momentsry boost in your turning ability.
I might not have much experience in air rb but i have enough to know the me262 makes the worst fw190 look like a spitfire.
The a2a is even more difficult now becuse it lost 40 rounds of ammo leaving it with only 160 rounds now almost every german plane needs some amout of skill (maybe expect the he 112 b2) but thats rare anyways.