I play the in game single player campaigns.
Not a crash on the ground. Multiple in air collisions as the entire flight ends up "jinking to check their six" [?] then there is this total out of formation scramble as the planes fight to reform. There are one or two aircraft in the fight after that cluster ***k who's wings are beating the air like a humming bird. If you stand and hold both arms out from your sides, you're the plane, then wag the wings. That's the behavior done quite rapidly while the plane is weaving and bobbing all over the sky. Then the invariable crash into another member of the flight and then they're all in pieces, with every body screaming over the net about how they're bailing out or on fire. And that's the end of the mission because it has to be restarted so they can all swan around the enemy landing field until they are all shot down. :( I got taken out once because the number 3 plane on my right started that nonsense and I couldn't keep enough focus on him and hold my position as flight leaders wingman.
When I'm playing there's a lot of "stay with your leader" ringing in my ears. :grin::grin:

For creating a NTRK, you have to set up a key in your 'controls' menue for 'Quick start/save track'. Pressing it in flight will start the recording, pressing it again will stop it and save a file in your game/records folder. You can post (attach) it here in the forum and everyone can put it into his own game and watch it. Simple as that. ;)

Thanks. You make me laugh at my own ignorance. I've been playing IL2 since day one and I have never used the 'save track' option. :-) I'll have to have a look around and if I can get it together maybe I will post an out of cockpit view of some turkeyneck gyrating about the formation. Though usually it goes to hell in a hand basket quite rapidly about 1,000 ft ahead and below my position as escort. We'll see. Thanks again for the tip.

Actually so long as you have the recording going while the problem happens the reviewer can look at the situation from any available camera angle. Even if you weren't watching. Beauty of track recordings in Il-2.

It's how I (and others) make in-game cutscenes for single player campaigns.