I'll try to fly the Russian planes too in the next time, did this a lot in the first IL-2 part, mostly the IL-2 itself. Others were the American P-47 and 51.
I see you have still all the writings in the sky, that's the first I try to disable or reduce in a flight sim, at least in singleplayer or for our own servers. I have only a small dot now (in IL-2), it appears in grey at 10 km and changes the color to red/blue at 5 km. Without the dot I wouldn't find any aircraft within a kilometer or two if the background is a field, forest or city, only white clouds or a clear blue sky makes them easily visible on 4 -5 km.
Stukas. (dot above)
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Good choice. Of what is Tier 3 the P-47 and the P-51 are (in my opinion) the only two worthwhile USA planes. Especially the P-51 ... I love it, and with its cannons it is beautiful to make head-2-head. The rest its garbage (except the B25 bomber)
The indicators in the screen (and the view from outside) appear only in arcade mode (full HUD) which is the game mode that I play when I want to make a quick game (when I don't have much time)... In the realistic mode the indicators are very few, and in simulator mode there is no indicator at all , and the view is only from the cockpit. I don't usually play in a simulator because they are recreations of historical battles ... and that implies (for example) having to take off and be flying for minutes just to get to the mission. Realistic is more balanced in that aspect.
Now I am playing with Russian airplanes, and the IL-2 is serving me better as a fighter than as a ground attack aircraft, due to its 23mm front cannons

The IL-2 confuses the human players, because as it is a ground attack aircraft, most people think it is easy target, they face the IL-2 head2head, and they are broken down in seconds with its cannons....
Something similar happened to me when I used the Stuka.
(another plane that I like very much)



