Aircraft will no longer fly with their landing gear down while in combat. Key functions have been added to filter communications. These can be mapped to a key of your choice in the custom key mapper screen. Wingmen now exit formation when returning to base. Tomahawk-capable ships can now engage land targets with cruise missiles.
Aircraft can engage ships with cruise missiles at greater range now.
Aircraft will now maintain their assigned altitude when attacking a target with missiles. When wingmen are fired upon by mobile SAMs, they will respond with an appropriate SAM launch warning vice Alamo or Archer calls. Flight model enhancements and changes Stick input in pitch is now more symmetrical. Pitch performance in inverted flight has been adjusted so the aircraft will try to maintain approximately 1 G flight with neutral stick. Rudder authority has been increased.