Longest IL-2 campaign/pilot career

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The longest career in terms of number of missions as said above is probably the non-Leningrad soviet fighter career, that starts at Lvov and goes via many campaigns to Berlin. There are a lot of available aircraft you can change to, and I would advise you do.

The first campaign is the start of the war, and it's pretty short, the stock plane is the i16 mark 18, you can change that if you want, but it's probably short enough that you don't really need to.

The second campaign is retreating back toward the defence of Moscow, it's pretty long, the default plane is the i16/18 again, it's slow, under gunned and not much fun so I advise changing it.

The third campaign is of middling length, the default plane is a MiG3, with the standard gunnery package, I recommend changing that one too.

The fourth campaign is in the Crimea, you have to fight the usual Bf109s but also IAR80s, your default plane is the Yak1, and the IAR turns fractionally tighter, and is about as fast, so I'd take the i16/24, which is slower, but doesn't get caught in a turn fight. Then again, I like turn fighting, if you don't then maybe another plane would suit you.

There are something like a eight to a dozen more campaigns, there are different alternate planes in all of them, you don't have to fly the same plane in any two campains in the career if you don't want to.