After flying 30+ flight hours exclusively in the viper, I picked out the hornet for a mission yesterday, only waiting eagerly to land and hop back in my unfinished f-16. I tried it one more time with the JF-17 and had the same effect.
Maybe it is a question of passion, the Viper is for me the most enjoyable plane yet in DCS. But most likely I would even try to fly this thing without wings. I am more than happy to be able to participate as a test pilot for this model and as a test pilot I won't complain about missing features and bugs. How should I?
However, my only critics might address the priorities. Seeing an F-16 right now in the air which is in specific items (e.g. TWS, LGB) more capable than the F-18 which is out for more than one year looks strange. However, as fan of the F-16 I should not complain too much. This would be my personal top wishlist for fixes:
1. TGP Steerpoint offset / CZ support
2. LGB / TGP INS drift issue
3. adding additional waypoints
4. delivering harms
The first three take away many options in multiplayer environments. I am excited about the new wing flex, looks awesome to me, but I hope that thins like above will not get lost in features like this.
The number of crashes is very low and basically all offered features work with - let's say - an acceptable level of bugs. That is a big achievement when I see at the same time the passion in form of the level of details, the developers put in the simulation.
Weak points in testing are longtime-flights (with refueling and rearming) and "multiplayability". Add this to your test scenarios, it's worth it.
Finally, nevertheless, even with all the limitations, everytime I enter the cockpit I am having the feeling that the plane is far more capable than I am. Please, ED, keep it like that. Don't forget to finish up things. :-)