I noticed the French coastline suspended in mid-air – Like Pandora in Avatar.

foo-fighters !! ^^

Some of the smoke trails the lag leave in the sky pretty cool. Last night I saw a smoke trail of x's. Other night someone left one with some perfect right angles. It looked like a game of snake or, as I mentioned to gilly at the time, a Tron lightcycle trail

Nah. The PS3 leaderboards have been borked right from the begining when the game was launched.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=10000

Was like that last night on the cta we played. I tried to fly under the coastline and managed about 2 seconds before crashing. There's a similar glitch in the south of sciliy coastline that you can actually fly under and survive!

I give up trying to figure the leaderboards. After this past week, watching some of the best pilots in this game go from top ten to 38 or up and getting passed up big time by pilots with less than 3 or 4 weeks on sim, I have no faith in them at all. Like other things in our society today, people are getting privlages without earning them. Screw the leaderboards. We know who the best guys are and they get our respect. That's good enough.

urgh...i've worked my rear-end off to win 30 strike matches and get that b-17 but it doesn't count every single win i get and now i finally got to 30 wins as the leaderboard says i have recieved nothing. I'm really losing the will to play online now

Just because the Leaderboards dont count your wins, doesn't mean your game doesn't count your wins. Keep going and you'll get your B17 :)