am i silly or is the F-5A / C flight performance terrible compared to the absolute ufo that is the E variant?
it might be my lack of mods but i the moment i do one turn i get so slow and simply cant recover enough speed, so much so to the point that if someone is on my 6 i am pretty much guaranteed dead because i can not make them over shoot and i can not gain enough speed to make a meaningful maneuver either

im open to any suggestions because i believe that the plane probably isnt the issue, but rather how im using it