Anybody else think the ground is too soft?

[White Owl]

I just played a mission in IL-2 1946 for old time's sake. It was fun. I shot down one plane, ran out of ammo, returned to base. Over the runway I forgot which game I was playing for just a second... I flared too high, stalled, bounced, broke a wingtip off on the pavement, collapsed my landing gear and destroyed the engine.

Whoops.

This wouldn't have happened in Dover. Landings are stupidly easy in Dover. All of them. Throttle back, hold her straight, and she'll grease on so smoothly it's hard to even know when she's down until you hear the wheels rolling. Every single time.

I'm very much enjoying so many features in Dover... but I miss the punishing landings in '46. I don't want the plane to forgive my sloppiness. I feel like I've been cheated out of the satisfaction from setting up a perfect approach and sliding on a perfect three-pointer. I want that perfect landing to be difficult.

Anybody else thinking the same?