This is an amazing game.
I am a huge fan of the flight simulator genre, and this game was a complete success in my opinion. I have spent endless hours playing this one, and beating it on all but the hardest difficulty, and I find the choice of planes is great, the missions are excellently thought out and not too difficult, on any difficulty. The realism factor is kind of low though, the sheer amount of missiles and bombs doesn't pan out right for me, along those lines the large amount of air-to-ground missions/targets, well actually the large amount of targets in general, skimps on the realism as well. I would have given 10 out of 10 except for that factor. Overall I think if you aren't hardcore into realism and enjoy a good flight simulator, I totally recommend this game.