nice 
AA is a great sim, lets hope theyve given Iculus a decent budget and permission to port AA to Linux again 
One thing I particularly like, and think might be worthwile for AH is the offline training you have to complete before you're allowed to play online.
While WB didn't force you to do offline training, I practised offline untill I could sufficiently beat the drones and then moved online.
It smoothed the learning curve a lot although I was surprised how much more demanding it was to play against human players. So I like the idea in general.
However it sucks if you lose your account info for a reason or another - like now when I stoped playing for years and would like to give AA3 a try.