The point is that after reading the articles, especially the first one, and seeing the many thousands of lives and aircraft lost in WWII in NON-COMBAT incidents, it is clear that maintaining and flying a WWII fighter plane was not a game. If anything it is far too easy to fly IL2 even on realistic settings.
I hear IL2 pilots crying all the time about this or that aircraft because it is too hard for them to control it in turning fights, they spin out or crash or stall. I don't do it in the same plane and lots of their wingmen don't have a problem either, they are the problem.
Flying IL2 on Realistic settings should be hard and a challenge that not all are up to, just as not everyone you know would be able to fly a real one, most of them would wash-out in training or simply not have the nerve or aptitude. A lot of people can not even drive an automobile without regularly getting into fender-benders and ditches.
If you can tough it out flying IL2 on realistic settings then you should feel good about it, especially if you are not the best at it but you keep on trying and learning in silence while having fun.
If all you need is a simple game then by all means fly easy settings and enjoy it, but don't try and discredit flying IL2 on Realistic settings because you can't do it. The history and facts definitely say that flight sims are not for everyone, just as flying an actual aircraft is not.
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