What attracts you to combat flight sims

[Sternjaeger II]

I have a bit of a mixed feeling about sims.. I mean, I like flying with simulators, and the more accurate the better of course, but there's always a couple of elements that are missing which really affect the realism of the combat experience: fatigue and attitude.

No matter how advanced, a sim will hardly wear you down like flying on a real plane, and I'm not talking just about tiredness, but stress as well, which links with attitude: we tend to take more risks and do crazier stuff on a sim that you would do in real life, simply because we're not there, and if you die, you're dead only in the game.