Erich Hartmann, Gerard Barkhorn or Gunther Rall vs. pilots of today

Apparently, Hartmann disapproved of the German Airforce procuring the 104. He eventually resigned over this issue. Maybe he realised that this was too much aircraft for many of the new pilots ?
He had joined the new German Airforce only after spending 10 years or so in various prisons / gulags on trumped up charges.

vinnye said:

I agree, todays fighter pilots are a lot better trained than those during WW2. In peace time you can practice as long as you like - especially with simulators. You even get G suits and have training to deal with G forces. I dont recall any such training or equipment back then.

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the closest thing they had as a simulator was a link trainer. iirc that was used mostly for instrument flying as you couldnt see out of it...and a pen marked your flight path on a paper map. but it still counted for flight time in the log book. late in the war they had a g-suits...which was not a whole flight suit but a pair of pants. was nowhere as close to what they have now but it worked.