A non FF joystick requires the same low level of effort to operate the control surfaces irrespective of the intensity of the maneouvre with no force feedback from the control surfaces as there would be in real flight. . To say that reducing the sensitivity is cheating is an opinion but, lets face it, unless you are flying in full realism you are taking advantage of the software and anyone who uses external views, padlocks, no cockpit view, and all the other features is, by that definition, also cheating - which of course they are not! Enjoy the game and use whatever settings you are happy with..........there are flyers on line who you could drop from 20000ft in a rowing boat and they would still rack up a bagful of kills....
