[Tomo]

Hmm yeah i see what you are saying, and i think you may well be in for a disappointment. I guess the real issue is one of balancing realism and fun.

It may be realistic to fly four hours, drop a few bombs, see no enemy planes and then fly home, but is that going to be fun?

I'm not dismissing your concerns, because i too share them (probably most of the people here do also) but i think we have to trust that it has been done well until we know otherwise.

All the videos that i have watched leave me optimistic that it will be a very realistic game, albeit not a "hardcore" PC type sim.

Edit - I think the take off/landing stuff will be contextual. For example, during the Battle of Britain you would probably do the take off and landing because it is a local event. But for a bombing run over Germany, you probably start in the air. Imagine the logistics of mapping the entire continent of Europe and fitting it into the game? Sure it's okay for crappy games like x-plane because the visuals are horrible. But look at the Birds of Prey environments! Stunning!!!