Another thing you don't get in a commercial sim is the rendering of every little subsystem that an aircraft has. Throttle, Pitch, Mixture, compression, etc are pretty good for a flight sim game, but the ones they use for the big Boeings, Airbusses, and the military jets and choppers simulate the hydraulic and electrical systems, the in-cabin PA system, the backups, the bypass circuits, and a thousand other things. Plus most of them require outside operators to input different variables and such that the pilot and copilot are going to have to deal with. We're probably 10 years away from flight sim games simulating airframe expansion, how icing affects airflow over the wings. . . . and all those other things you find in real Simulators.

I'm not Knocking SOW, but it's not possible given time, money, and hardware constraints. The fact that we are being given variable flames from the exhaust is a milestone, and I'm sure there are other milestones Oleg's keeping for release and future patches.