I still think that it's a seriously good idea for some kind of "official" offline training. I would love to do some proper flight training in a Tiger moth, for example, learning how to trim an aeroplane properly and how to fly straight and level and on course. You might think this funny, but ask yourself do you know how to (by the book) and can you do it? (How many people use the rudder when they fly?). The RAF even today pick their fighter pilots on their ability to fly straight and level. If the cadet can't do it very well after a few hours training they move on to larger aircraft or a non flying career.
It was very frustrating in IL2, in the middle of a campaign, to find yourself in a completely different aircraft on the next mission without knowing much about the new one, having no idea about it's engine management, prop pitch or whatever, with no convertion period to familiarise yourself with it.
How many 109 fliers know how to fly a Me109 fast, and how to use manual prop pitch properly (including me here!) on the early ones? Very few, from watching posted ntrk's . Some instruction on "official" contemporary methods of engagement would also be great. The luftwaffe tactic of flying above and attacking the target in a fighter from out of the sun isn't often found in IL2 in offline missions, if ever.
If the aim is to get us all flying in a historically correct way, then some correct basic training surely isn't a bad thing. There could be an option to press "escape" to skip it if you done it already, but it'd be fun to pick something you've never flown before and be taught properly how to fly it, without spending months sometimes! trying to find out how you're supposed to do it.
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