An off the wall idea: that you could stop an offline AHF at any point, and click somewhere that'd export the recorded plane's status - position, speed, acceleration - and teleport yourself to that status inside the game. E.G. someone posts a film of him having trouble completing a maneuver or breaking out of a spin, you download and watch the film, stop it and click "export", then go run AH.exe and click something somewhere that tells the game to zap you to the same circumstances on the same map. You could thus have a better idea of what the other player is dealing with.
Might only be feasible for offline films.