Frazer wrote:I flew Knights of the Sky (now called ROF) back in 2007 in Moscow and damn, this is a cool sim! Will visit Andrew Petrovich his office again this summer (and who knows there is an English copy around somewhere AHUM!).
Interesting to see all new simulators coming out of Russia!
Just over the last five, six years we have Lock On, IL2, PF, DCS, ROF... the list goes on for titles developed in Russia this decade! Meanwhile the simulator genre is slowly dying in the United States to make room for more shoot 'em up style games and "blockbuster hits". I don't mind those games either, but that's exactly what they are... games! It saddens me to see my beloved genre die a slow painful death. I still remember the days when you could run down to any computer retailer and have a dilemma over which flight simulator to buy next. Those were the days!
Fighter Ops is the only true hope outside of Russia these days, and it's a world wide project not necessarily tied to any country. Good thing the Russians seem to have developed a knack for making really good flight simulators in the meantime. I hope they keep it up, because hardly anyone else is anymore (especially now that MSFS was axed earlier this year too).
I think even the Snowbirds do it that way.
Exact numbers are hard to say but with the Berkuts, we never have a shortage of highly motivated pilots. 
