Some ideas: Pilot reactions

[recoilfx]

Hand signals would be awesome - but man it would be so many more keys to map.

[Jotaele]

G-breathing sound would be cool, is very inmersive.I like in ROF when the view starts to be blured due the wounds, better than only red screen.And what about hipoxia effects? DCS a10 has it very well modeled.Your view starts to bounce and all start to turn black.Finally , you lost controls.

[IvanK]

Hand signals for close formation stuff would be pretty neat ... still used today for things like formation changes, Config changes, freq changes, No Comm emergency (HEFOE).

[Rattlehead]

I like most of the ideas put forward, especially the blurred vision.
As for the pilot grunting and groaning, well the reservation I have about that is that although it would be novel at first, that sort of thing could start to grate on the nerves after a while.

But some of the ideas sound very interesting.

[Pluto]

... I know they put it in Need for Speed - Shift and in Shift2.
There you can hear heavy breathing from the driver when you hit a wall or something like that and I think Shift2 is rated for 3 years old children.

But if you want to see heads ripped off by flakexplosions and blood spilling all over in the cockpit, for the realism, or a rear gunner with all his guts hanging out because he was hit by machinegun fire in his belly,... maybe you ask the developers if they want to bring out a 2nd version of the game, only for adults.

I personally would be already pleased if they iron out the existing deficiencies.