For me too, that's why the clickable virtual cockpit was invented. A very immerse and natural way to operate all the switches you maybe use just once or twice during a mission. I prefer to only map really important functions to my stick that I have to access quickly during critical situations.

But having to use the keyboard for all actions is still better than having no complex or more complex start up procedures and similar things at all. I hope some companies that now only work for MSFS will start making 3rd party, "as real as it gets" add ons for SOW series as well.

That would naturally be the best solution like you say. I guess that the problem is the additional coding that has to be done... If choosing between better AI och clickable buttons, I have to vote AI. It would be nice If they thought about it while coding though - so the door is not closed for adding it later on...

Yeah, I guess with such a small team Oleg could never finish BOB within a foreseeable timeframe if they implement each desirable feature.

Oleg said that all switches in the VC are prepared to be animated, even for functions that will initially not be simulated. So maybe there is hope for future SOW titles if parts of the cockpit can already be linked to commands.

Now imagine what cockpit builders could do with that ...:cool:

Quite frankly I'd rather have an immersive and rewarding offline campaign á la Red Baron II, but that's just me. :mrgreen:

No. ;)

me too..

Me three.

me four :-P

No need for me using keyboard for clickable start up , moving mouse with
pointing arrow over switches by clicking mouse to trigger all start up procedure with mouse is fair enough , pretty quick and not as much bothering at all .
Typing assigned keys on keyboard would certainly kill my immersion :cool: