Where do you start with IL-2 1946?

[Igo kyu]

I would start with the difficulty options. Select the ones you want, deselect the ones you don't. After all of the years, I still have some deselected (I don't play online).

For a career, I would pick the Russian fighter career, you can change the aircraft in a particular campaign, but it might be best to try them out as they come the first time through. Or you might pick the russian fighter career (one of them has an asterisk, I forget which), which is the original Sturmovik fighter career, that one you can't pick the aircraft, there are about sixty missions in that, the first one has you following a more or less circular flightpath in a LaGG-3, it was the original introduction so it's probably a good way to start.