Wow, not cool NG, not cool....
I wonder if PF had been made by an american company if they would have felt that way? I honestly fail to see how PF was bad publicity or infringing on NG, its not like the Wildcat/Hellcat are badly modeled, they are very good. Dynamix's Aces of the Pacific, and all those history channel shows, and other games are ok then I guess?
I'm no lawyer so I'm assuming its very complicated and probably not discussed very much here. Ah well, I love those Grumman planes so I'm glad we have what we have, perhaps thats why there is no real f-14 sim either?
I used to mod for Red Baron 2 and 3d many years ago over at SWISSA. Anyways, that sim had a long life, but not like Il2. I just came back to sims this year after a 8 or 9 year absence and was suprised to find TD and Il2 still going, and of course Oleg still answering questions