You should try online with full engine management. It is something! Especially now at the beginning of the learning curve it feels just like in all the stories I've read: as if you are for real put into combat right after a flight school with not enough experience. Sometimes you just forget about enemy struggling with your own plane to survive watching gauges and rotating radiator handles like a mad
Won a duel with a 109, burned my engine in the process and managed to glide to safety of my airfield. It feels so great when you manage to do it for the first time. Tnx Maddox Games for giving this experience again after 10 years! I never thought I can have it again.
Anyone can get "real" external IPs from your providers and host small 16 ppl online sessions. Do it! Nothing compares to it!