Sounds like a good plan for the allied stuff. As for defending in Zero's and Oscars, i've personally never had any interest in axis side action. I haven't flown an axis mission in my twelve years of CFS2, just FF tours and a couple of QC sessions. But others may be game for it, so plow ahead.
P.S...i have to admit that i am partial to the George in No-Fun multi-play. Its the best, all-around A2A performer of all the stockers.
Yeah, I have flown IJN/IJAF and German planes in FF also. Even though my ancestors are German, I really take no pleasure, even in a game, of being on the enemy side against the USA. So, like you, I haven't really done any Axis flying or mission building. This one would be my first.
Wow, I have never really flown around in the George. I may have to give it a shot and test it out. My favorite fighter to fly in QC is any Spitfire, even though with Tuskegee Airmen campaign building I got quite accomplished in the P-40F and can hold my own against any Axis plane one on one in KM_P-40F after I researched its strengths and weaknesses and those of my opponents' aircraft. I am also fairly accomplished in the P-38J after building Aces campaign.
I suppose that is true of all of us as we build multiple missions for the same aircraft. When I first started the Aces missions, I was getting killed often in the P-38Fs. By the time the campaign progressed to the J model, I was more lethal to Imperial Japanese aircraft than they were to me. The J model will dive and climb like a dolphin in the ocean and none of the IJN/AF fighters could stand the forces. Once they broke off, I OWNED them.
(Plus, I worked my way through college in plumbing and heating. My supervisor was a WWII USAAC mechanic on P-38s in Europe. He told me stories about his pilots coming back to England and telling him about climbing hard to just before a stall, hitting full left rudder, cutting power to the port engine and going full throttle on the starboard engine and spinning a circle on the pursuing Jerries. The guns and canons were in the nose so as soon as he came around, they came to bear on the enemy fighter). I used that a couple of times in QC in a J model. Works quite nicely, but too difficult to put it into missions for others.
In Meridian and Iceberg I am getting excited to learn the Corsairs, Hellcats, Seafires Fireflies, and Barracudas. I have not really flown any of them much. I will also have to brush up my skills for Japanese fighters and ground attacks.
Lee