NO! ... he played on ARCADE, and my guess is that he tried the different views and found no cockpit view (only 3rd and virtual)

Anyway, only hope is that it is a preview build (but seriously, i don't think the cockpit views of german planes will be in the final)

:(

What I was saying is if he had chosen SIMULATION versus ARCADE maybe he would have had a cockpit seat.

IIRC, the demo games were all from November of last year. We never even saw a cockpit picture until a couple of months ago. The propellers were too dark and that was fixed since then too. Any number of things could be going on here.

Total Speculation
 

After reading all of this replies I am sure Mr Anton is either, relieved because he knows this is not true or swetting like crazy because he knows that sales numbers for sim players are going down the drain...

I get lights and music in my head, but only when I'm squeezing a freshly peeled kitten....

I don't think so because you can have cockpit view in ARCADE too (and i'm guessing he tried to switch to that and failed)

LOL you must be right.... it's one or the other.
But I am sure Anton is not swetting too much since sim players are, most probably, not their primary target.

And you are right also when saying that all this is pure speculation but what else can we do while waiting for the final release? ;)
At least, that shows all our interest in this game.

Surely they modelled a few axis cockpits to facilitate sim mode mulitplayer?

Otherwise this game is going to sink FAST.

There's no excuse for the 360 version - it has been finished for a LONG time. They could have easily spent time working on axix cockpits.

I'll be cancelling my pre-order unless it can be confirmed all planes in multiplayer have cockpits with exception to bombers. If you're flying with the most realistic settings then fighting someone whose view is not hindered in any way by a cockpit gives them a clear advantage though I can't believe a developer would be so short sighted as to leave out cockpits on some planes and hopefully the article referred to has made a mistake.

Why do some people think research has to be done to model these cockpits that should already be in the game?

The research was done for the original IL2. Even if BOP can't get the actual resources to use in game they have a PERFECTLY modeled cockpit that all they have to do is COPY.

Give one half decent 3D modeler one week and he can COPY what someone else has already done all the work for.