Although I am a longtime owner of both Flanker and Flanker 2, I have never been able to fly either worth a darn because of the lack of a missile padlock (In my view, LOMAC suffers from much the same difficulty; it has a missile padlock system, but not a very good one).

That, combined with the uber-missiles in 2.0/2.5 (combined--too--with my pathatic situational awareness), means that I always get killed within about, oh, three minutes of starting a mission.

If 2.5 were to be modified to support TrackIR, though, who knows: maybe survival would be possible after all! And the sim itself would take on a whole new life.

I have always thought that Flanker 2 was just one padlock view away from greatness, which deficiency TrackIR support could partly rectify.

I know that TrackIR support is probably a pipe dream, of course, but we can still dream, can't we?

DKM