Rgr. Guess a store price of just under 28 quid isn't too bad either.

Just got mine afew nights ago, and it seems really good, especially from someone who only few PC sims. But I can't fly at all with that gamepad. I tried sinking ships with a torpedo and got a message that my torpedo had drowned. I mean who knew ?
I have to try this with a joystick though, can someone recommend a joystick? I only have the Xbox360 so the playstation isn't an option.

does anybody read post, lol... asked and answered a number of times... but anyway...

Saitek AV8R-02 or the Cybord FLY9...and a couple others.

Magnum, I havent even done any of the campaign and have unlocked 7 planes already, did you play on realistic or simplified?

I just did the tutorials on realistic and got a ton of xp

Actually I did read all 8 pages, but those 2 are the only ones mentioned, does anyone know what the others are?

I have the Ace Edge Hori HOTAS flight stick that I bought as a bundle with Ace Combat 6. No longer in production you can find these on ebay.

Hori has a newer version out you can buy for $140 with no game.

someone was selling an Ace Edge in the Buy/sell forum.

Don't they just have a basic cheap joystick that can be used? Talk about a market for an inexpensive joystick !

Just picked this up last night and put several hours into it, completing the tutorial then jumping straight into the Dynamic Campaigns.

I will say that this could be an incredibly fun and detailed console sim, but the mission objectives are so outrageous that it completely turns me off.

For example, dynamic mission to intercept some bombers. Our flight of 4 takes off to intercept no less than 40 bombers, with our mission success objective to destroy at least 8. No problem, that's 2 bombers per plane with my 3 other AI wingmen only the AI seem to not engage. This leaves me with having to down 8 bombers before they reach their target which is about 10 minutes out. This is early in the war too, so I am flying the older axis biplanes. I have run something like this no less than 10 times and have yet to complete this successfully.

This system desperately needs some sort of scaling to fit the objective within the difficuly level and aircraft used.

Heck, I wouldn't mind seeing a revamp of the whole system where the reward is based on targets destroyed with the requirement to land safely to cash in. This would introduce some risk/reward to te mission, vice just blowing up 8 bombers/AAA/Fighters and having the mission complete itself and fade to black.

With it's current structure and frustratingly tough and unrealistic objectives, I'm finding it hard to stick with it.

That was in the dynamic campaign? I haven't flown any like that. The ones I take on are flying a good distance with a couple of dozen other planes to bomb a target or torpedo a ship, then have to try to get home alive. Perfect missions, seem very realistic to me. Proper loadouts and you have to fight off the enemy fighters with your rear gunner all the way there and all the way back.
My main complaint is having to unlock and buy planes. One or the other is bad enough, but having to do both is discouraging. With the little time I'm able to put into this, I don't know when I'll get to freely fly the planes I want to fly.