This is a good post from the game's official board:
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The dev's have already said that this game isnt going to be as super realistic like IL2. IMHO its far from ace combat style aircade for sure. The FM in this game isnt as historically accurate as IL2... the characteristics of the plane are definately there, but things like climb rates and acceleration is just higher than normal.
In fact in simulation mode its really not that bad at all (difference between sim and the rest of the modes is like night and day), you have to manage your radiator, flip on superchargers at alt, watch your gauges and you have no hud or target diamonds nor can you view outside the plane. you still have to lead targets while shooting but its just been made more forgiving. the other modes let my non-flight sim friends jump on andcan actually play the game competitively with me.. now they are enticed into learning a bit more, so thats helping lead more people into flight sims. Not many play flight sims these days, lets be honest our community is very small and aging.
long story short, dont play this game expecting IL2.. play it expecting an arcade game that looks like SoW:BoB and flip it into simulator mode... it definately lives up to its design goal of being "fun". When i'm itching for that realistic carrier landing in my F4u, i can always fire up my modded il2. the graphics in this thing is a dream, gotta get used to it for SoW:BoB  if you're fixed on only playing extremely realistic sims, then definately this isnt your cup of tea.
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One of my former squadmates tested the beta... he's enthusiastic for all the visual effects (ground and inflight effect like the oil trails who soils your canopy) but he's a little concerned by the fact he can (could?) do candle at cruise speed to gain 2,5km of altitude...
Personally I search for flight model accuracy, and
by now WoP can't give it to me.