I admit to being a full blown flightsim junkie, and IL2-FB withe ACE exapnsion pack is THE BOMB

Nothing else comes close. The grpahics are great, the flight models are nice, the planes and cockpits are gorgeous, and best of all, the mission editor allows for near eternal replay.

The quality of the mission builder is without equal. A hundred flyable planes, fighters, bombers, ground attack, exotic WWII fantasy jets. Dozens of ships, including torpedo boats (that actually launch torpedos), cruisers, battleships (with great big gun effetcs), cargo shipping and subs, all programable andable to scrap. Dozens of tank and ground vehicle units that are also programable and fight. V1 rocket launchers (that launch). Barrage balloons. Over 300 static ground objects to build scenarios with. A dozen maps, Normandy, Berlin, Kursk, a HUGE Leningrad map, anda few Pacific maps as well.

This sim is the grand enchilada of prop sims. You can fly to scrap or it's pretty enough just to fly and look around.

The only down side is that this sim can kill almost any gaming rig. While the graphics and size of the battles can be scaled down, to fly at 1024x768 in 32-bit colour in a big scenario you need serious hardware. Even a 3Ghz with a Gig of RAM and a serious video card can be put to death with some of the battles you can build.

But it's worth every penny. This is the dream sim we flight-heads have always wanted.