Hello Simon!
ah that civilian aero thingie sounds like a nice idea

thats a big omission of IL2 IMHO to have not included some simple training planes for learning basic things;
something like a FW-44 or Tiger Moth or Stearman or even a flyable PO-2 would have been nice from the beginning on to get to grips with basic aircraft handling

I will give the new TFM another spin tomorrow and if everything runs like it should will try to add some additional stuff, mostly cockpit repaints and the mentioned Bearcat, SuperCorsair and Reppu, all of which I have grown to like very very much now after a few spins in them...
have you tried the Cromhunt repaints of the Mustang, Thunderbolt and Corsair cockpits;
I am currently using Freddy´s pits for the Mustangs and TBolts but Cromhunt´s look very nice too and might be a little bit easier to install plus they seem to be compatible with the various other TBolt mods that make TBolt flying a lot nicer;
oh one last question...I noticed that in the new TFM Tiger´s sound mod is loaded before everything else, even the new spinners and cowlings. as Tiger´s does include some engine meshes and these gave problems with Corsairs, the new Lancaster for example and various other 3d meshes of aircraft included in Tiger´s mod so I had to load the new cowlings before Tiger in my current install, which works flawlessly though.
so do i have to reorder the cowlings mod before Tiger again to have those nice rounded noses on the birds?
cheers
phil