A very bad learning tool.....

[Janosch]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

In any case, things like plane ID tags and padlocking corrects for the game's rendering limitations and for the limits of computer monitors.

These cheats create more problems for gameplay, balance and immersion than they supposedly fix. Now, a "friendly icons only, at close range" - type of solution is acceptable, if only to prevent friendly fire, but that is generally needed only for non-historical planesets.

Originally Posted by sniperton

Unless you have a three-monitor setup of 25+ inches each, your vision is so much limited in comparison to RL that visual aids like plane IDs and the like cannot be considered 'unrealistic' IMHO.

There's no point in comparing Il-2 to RL in the first place, and speaking of limitations in general, the only "limitation" a player may have is in a completely different place than eyes or hardware.