It seems horrible. Most 5.7 planes climb better than it. Most planes out turn it. Its not that fast and it 6.0.
You’re never going to outclimb people in the corsair, and you’re barely going to out-turn at all.
Instead you take advantage of its good top speed, linear energy retention and ability to get away quickly ASAP thanks to its acceleration. In dogfights your best quirks are its roll-rate and monstrous flaps, so you force 1circle fights and take advantage of downward spirals. You want to watch out getting dragged into the vertical because corsairs don’t have good VER. Though you can get some quick stall shots, it’s still not preferred unless you’re confident that you can hit the enemy in the first place.
It performs similarly to the American F4U-4B albeit being heavier and carrying more ground attack options. Though at 6.0 BR the gap is really wide thanks to monsters like the F2G, P51H, the early jets, etc. You’re still a respectable plane. I had some successes even against P-51H’s in the F4U-4B by forcing scissor fights and even winning against a 1v8+ months ago.
If you really don’t like the plane’s main style of fighting, then I recommend just skipping it or not playing it altogether.
Use MEC and spade it. It performs so much better when spaded, and it actually climbs too. It’s also incredibly good in ground RB.
If you like sim, it’s great there too.
It’s F4U-4, not 7 but 7 is better than F4U-4 and only slightly worse than 4B:
This is 4B, the -7 is slightly worse PWR (it’s a bit fatter and different engine):
First vid is a legit tutorial, second vid is mostly a montage of dogfights while learning the 4B (slightly better 7) with text commentary on his decision making. Idaho is one of the best allied pilots, so I trust his takes for dogfights.
The gist is:
Your flaps are insanely good for low-speed stability and flying.
You’re one of the fastest planes around with MEC.
You actually have a pretty good power generation compared to usual american props while WEPing, but WEP is only 15 minutes in duration.
The corsair can and will 2C fight bf109s.