Landing?
 

I just landed in Simulator mode at the start of the Dover mission and my engine has turned itself off. Problem is I can't turn it back on again and fly off? Is this supposed to happen?

Maybe your props struck the ground and killed the engine. I've done it like 30 times(on purpose of course!).:)

I think your right, I just had several more attempts, and hitting the props definately did it. I managed to land without killing the engine so I think that proves it. HOWEVER.... according to Anton, you explode if your plane is too damaged to take off again, why didn't I explode??

That happens sometimes and it will usually say you 'crash landed' and then the camera will zoom out. If it didn't, then you just got lucky.;)

Yeah no zoom out, just was sitting in the cockpit not going anywhere fast. (Except if I shot the guns I would manage to creep backwards!)

Yeah, that was a neat feature I also noticed the other day lol. As far the camera not zooming out, I guess you made one hell of a landing.

How did you manage to break your wing off and come to a stop anyway?

Wow, that reminds me, i think this is the first game with a real dense forest. I landed and broke my wing off a tree in a forest, and was sitting their in the forest just admiring how real it actually looked.

Lucky...

The other day, I had broken my wing off on a tree and just spiraled only 10 meters above the ground for like 10 seconds until I hit a house. :-P

Explosion happens if you damaged plane too hard to take off and THEN get new damage.
For example, rip off wing and then damage prop.

Nice pictures, they really show how the landscape detail has been improved from the PC Il2s. The Alt at 450 thing is because the game measures altitude above sea level, not above the ground where you are.