Exellent post mate. I too like to start with everything as realistic as it can, cause I find it really rewarding to learn to use and fight with the machine by yourself. (and with a bit of forum-searching of course, and thanks for that
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Also, isn't fun to just fly the pattern in peace, to get to know the plane, how it performs in different states of flight, what are the instrument readings and such.. For me at least, it's very joyable.
And yes, this sim should definitely be considered as a beta, but the he**s wrong with that? The most effective way to beta test a sim I'd say. Of course we'd like to have a 100% perfect sim from the day one, but really, how many sims there are which have done that?
Zero.
Keep on flying mates!