Im one of the hvy plane freaks....love bombers. In another post i have asked about AI crew members if they would be there, but for me its larger

an proberbly no way near what will be in SOW when is done...
Oleg please reconsider 3d crew members. Not for the pilot seat, but for the other positions. The old B-17 M8 had a decent way, and im sure yo could make something that would work. No need for some over complicatet 100 different animations, something simple so you just dont feel alone...
And another small thing. Give the bomber pilot a way to check crew status. Consider making a Tab command where you can ask crew status after attack where they report in. That way you dont have to jump positions to figure it out and you can get rid of the dammedge messages....
SOW will also become the bombe pilots simulator and i realy hope you will look into imersion of that...being a bomber pilot in ww2...
TAB-
Crew status -repport-
Bzz tail gunner ok
Bzz Bombardier ok
etc etc
Tbear