@HaggisHero Yeah, agreed. While still definitely a “lite” sim, the best 5th Gen “experience” is VTOL VR, but part of the smart move of that is removing the actual aircraft type and making it fictional so it doesn’t have to be tied to an actual aircraft’s avonics. You definitely couldn’t manage an F-35’s classified me us by playing it, but you get the idea of what that feels like, even if it’s arcadey overall. 5th Gen does have a lot of easy button type stuff so at least I side the jet, it might just be that easy in RL. I still remember the first F-35 cockpit pic I saw and was sure it was a mock up because it didn’t have enough side panel switches, but it really is that simple.
BMS has plenty of other stuff to offer doing far less classified stuff with the challenge of the more complicated avonics and now interesting historical time frames. 5th Gen available info doesn’t meet the philosophy nor in a way capabilities (yet) of BMS.