Something else to think about. If you don't get something going with real time feeds, you should consider what the current generation of flight gamers think is normal. I had to watch hours of videos from some of our competitors to understand micro terrain for our tanks. Flying and tanking today for many is from our F3 with an aimbot perspective. That automatically means their perspective for films is not cockpit centrist while other tank simms hop back and forth from commander mode with aimbot and high info feed and a high information gunsight mode.
I doubt our films from the cockpit during white knuckle maneuvering is meaningful to their accustomed perspective. If anything all the competitor films I watched so I could inspect their terrain, oceans, clouds and sky. The pilot\commander perspective was always external showing off the detail of the planes or tanks against a visual tapestry of the world view around them. A bit arcadish but, we have all seen the 3D modeling in War Thunder so they can get away with making it the whole visual experience. In our case, we try to sell the ACM and combat as the experience which in our film perspective becomes boring to gamers. It's also a lazy easy way to create films, I take advantage of it to help myself with my own gunnery offline.
We have one effect no one takes advantage of. Showing the majority of the fight from external mode like WT as a story of two fighters gripped in a life or death struggle. But, change back to cockpit mode zoomed into the retical filling the screen while the audience watches all the gory details during those seconds shots are fired and finally to the kill at the end. That short gunsight view port is really the business end of our game that we all slave hours a night to achieve. This won't be necessary if you gents actually pull off some kind of a streaming video following for the game.
If you want to incur the download wait for this AVI, here is one of my gunnery training films I use to help myself correct my online shooting problems. It's highly informational for an AH player while just as boring to non AH playing gamers. Many of our films I look at online are this kind of boring if you are not an AH player.
I use this account to make terrains available to Hitech, a P51 gunnery training film:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=10U5iEaGqMedg7sISSfeC_lA8FrI2jNTo
