Some things to make you stop and stare ...

[BigC208]

I looked behind me in a Hurricane and noticed the bolts on the armour plate behind me. They're inscribed with "Maddox Games". Thought that was a nice touch. I really like the cockpit shadows but had to disable them. They cut my framerate from 24 down to 10fps. This sim has so many realistic features in it that people start listing them as bugs! Maybe a more inclusive manual will clear things up a bit.

I got the RAF gunsight functions mapped to my Warthog so I can adjust range and target size on the fly. It's little things like this that blow me away. Same with the landing gear/flap actuator in the Hurricane. Looks like a bug when you can't activate it untill you realize it's a two step process. They could've just released the Hurricane and call it a study sim . The value is immense and the potential endless. We need specific flight manuals for each of the planes though.

The atmospheric effects are very nice during dawn and dusk. I stopped flying at the default time setting. My settings are medium/low and everything looks a magnitude better when the sun is lower in the sky. Difference between a cartoon and a warm, atmospheric, fotorealistic scene.

Can't wait to buy the Americas version. Keeping my fingers crossed that they include all the patches and updates on the release version. Buying the DVD and then still having to download the entire game is a bit much.