Flew my first sortie today to try out my new stick and get the rust off. Man it's been a long time. Managed to to up from a capped field, get two kills & land safely. Then I logged out so I could end my first day on that high note. 
I signed up again yesterday too, had a couple of nice fights allready, but omg the rust.... Atleast i remembered how to do a hammerhead...
Waiting to get my old handle back, so for now im a shade
AHIII seems ok tough, i did not notice an overwhelming improvment even tough i put all the graphics settings on Max and started playing, but i guess if i had returned to AHII i would had gotten the feeling "WTF is these graphics omg its so old" - but i did not get that at all now, but then again i didnt get a WoW! feeling either from it.
Other then that it took a bit long to find fights, got a feeling that theres more players that is playing Ground Vehicles then there is pilots, but our country had a bad map placement aswell, so that part might improve.
