More good reasoning Cas!

Hey all I need to mention to get that "nicketty-picketty" in all of us resounding off the walls again is to bring up padlocking (and please lets not debate this over again here too), but in reference to your posting above Cas, padlocking is for some (maybe more so for newbies) a very helpful playability feature.

Sure, some sim "experten" will say "don't need it", "destroys SA", "get TrackIR", etc.! Well suffice it to say that if it helps balance the virtual gameplay of a sim, or enables dogfighting w/o some tremendous cost in historical accuracy then just "let it be".

After all, people can group on different multiplayer servers for different realism settings, but for some (especially newbies), having balancing gameplay features like padlocking makes that sim more accessible out of the box, and without lots of people willing to buy that box, this hobby isn't going anywhere.