COD's manual?

[rga]

Firstly sorry if it has been asked before.

COD will bring flight sim to an unpredecented level, that's for sure. I read that flying in COD would be much more demanding than in IL-2, which means tons of new details and features are added.

One of the drawback of IL-2 is the lack of a proper flight manual. When I played IL-2 for the first time, I had absolutely no idea of flying: never heard about stall, angle of attack,etc before. The community is a golden mine where tons of informations could be found, but as one says: you can only find what you're searching. Honestly, I flew without knowing how to take off for one day, how to land for 1 week, how to recover from stall for 1 month, how to use trim for one year and I'm still struggling to figure out how to use prop pitch best. Furthermore, novice pilots make lots of mistakes without even realizing. I remember I couldn't manage to land on carrier until I figured out it's elevator to control speed and throttle to control rate of descent, not the other way around.

Therefore, I really want to see a decent manual that covers all the features of the game, not just listing them, but describing in detail how they work: from the very basic of aviation like angle of attack, to the dedicated one like how to override your engine to get extra power or crosswind landing.

Furthermore, it would be nice to know about the flight discipline. In our sim you can do everything what you want to do, which may causes several reprimand in real life: landing or take off without permisson, landing with too much deviation from glide slope, taxiing on grass... I would like to know more about the radio discipline, about take off permission signal, about landing pattern and glide slope, about how to follow radar and ground control... That makes you feel you're not the lonely cowboy in the air, but a soldier of a on-going war.

I know such a manual could be hundreds-page long and very time consuming, but it will certainly speed up the learning rate, as well as inspire people to fly properly.