This is EXACTLY what COD needs..

Originally Posted by camel24hrs

I just got ROF yesterday. I do love the eye candy. However I have found it rather difficult to fly so far. Rather it is easy to fly but difficult to dogfight for me. I am use to useing padlock and toggling back and forth between the hat switch and padlock modes. I just cant seem to make that transition here in ROF yet. The sim seems geared to trackIR more. And I am old school. ROF is nothing like IL2 in the sense of using the views I use in IL2 and I find that disappointing. I am hoping COD is setup more like IL2 in that respect.

Honestly, if you're playing a flight sim these days you should really have a head-tracking setup. TrackIR is expensive, but well worth the money (says everyone who uses it).

Personally I'm a cheap do-it-yourself type person so I went here: http://www.free-track.net/english/ and got some ideas.

$30 for a PS3 Eyecam, and $10 for some IR LEDs and wires and I have a setup that runs 60fps smooth and is comfortable as well. There are tons of alternatives, and if you already have a Nintendo Wii you can use the remote. Pretty much any decent web-cam will work.

If you don't want to wear a hat with pretty IR LEDs, you could try face tracking. All you need is a web cam.
http://facetracknoir.sourceforge.net/home/default.htm
Still being worked on, but it's getting better all the time.

I could never go back to a flight sim "sans head-tracking". If I had a choice between head-tracking and a joystick I'd take a few minutes of pondering before I eventually handed over my freetrack setup.