[Widar]

Do the same that “Lucasarts” did around 1990 when they released the game “Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe” (SWOTL): they had one notable historian and four actual WWII pilots as consultants. SWOTL had Professor Williamson Murray and the USAAF WWII pilots James Finnegan (P-47 pilot), Robert Davila (B-17 pilot) and Thomas Masters (P-47 and P-51 pilot) and the 197 confirmed-victory Luftwaffe WWII ace Walter Krupinski (Me 109, Fw 190 and Me 262 pilot) as consultants. Now that was 19 years ago, I know, but some of those WWII flyers are still alive.

For instance, if I am not mistaken, these guys are still alive:

- The legendary British combat and test pilot Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, who has test piloted 487 aircraft - including all Spitfire marks, Mustangs and 55 WWII Luftwaffe aircraft - and countless marks of those 487 aircraft;
- The legendary USAAF (P-51) ace Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager;
- The 222 confirmed-victories Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer who flew combat missions from 9-1939 to 5-1945 in Me 109’s, Fw 190’s and Me 262’s;
- The 27 confirmed-victories Luftwaffe ace Willi Reschke who, in his 48 combat missions, flew the Ta-152 H1 from 1-45 to 5-45.

And surely some great WWII Red Air Force pilots must also still be among the living that can give the Russian aircraft in BOP a little test. I think Rudorffer was consulted in 2007 for the 350,000 Euro budget Finnish war movie “Tali-Ihantala 1944”. I mean if (some of) the Beatles can be trumped up for a silly console music game, how about letting real deal WWII pilots test fly some of your BOP WWII aircraft for authenticity checks. They won’t be around for ever these WWII pilots, so why not? Consult some WWII pilots who flew the actual WWII aircraft that you are simulating to do some BOP test flying and give you some tips on fine-tuning and improving the aircraft flight data in BOP so that they conform more to reality. And next to that there is the marketing benefit of involving them in BOP, not to mention the fun in meeting them.

What is there to lose, really?