Sadly, yep. It flies terribly, every slightest change of direction means massive loss of speed, 180 degree turn burns half of it or even more, and then you can't even accelerate, it only goes reasonably fast when you keep it absolutely straight. 110s are basically big, slow flying free kills unless they have many friends around them for defense, now, It might be realistic but I'm not so sure considering the FM of many other planes (P-40 AKA "flying wardrobe full of bricks")
The only redeeming features are quite good armament for its level, and it looks good. But only one level higher you get the mighty Beaufighter, so yeah, it's awful. Gaijin fix it!
Beaufighter has at least good speed, but still the problem remains that you will have problems shaking enemies off with it.
The whole trick is to NOT get anyone on your tail (ok it applies to everything but you know what I mean)
Though there are some ways to evade enemies with the Beau.
1. Nose down, get as much speed as possible, run to the friendly spawn
2. If you can't outrun your enemy plane and he's close you can do one fun thing :d, gear down, landing flaps and fire all the guns you have, the recoil will slow you down a lot (especially Beau Mk X with its 6 x .50 cals and 4 x Hispano) When enemy over takes you might get a chance at him (or at least a few more seconds of flight)