Its only natural to compare Aces High to other sims you have been on.
Despite whatever areas of the game irk people (buffs, AI acks, radar, etc) Aces High is a damn good game.
I flew a lot of the Novalogic games (F22, F16, MiG29, etc) and Falcon 4. Its too bad Falcon 4 and its incredible complexity never worked in an easy online system like Novalogic or Aces High. Subsequent 3rd party development has added that (JetNet) but its too late. Most of the Falcon 4 flyers are cultish and hard to find. But, that's another story. On the other hand, the NovaLogic software is aimed to sell to LOTS of people, so anything complicated would kill sales. Check out how arcadish the Commanche 4 chopper game demo is. Start engine and start pulling the trigger. Sad but true. And I bet they will sell a lot of copies when they port it over for Xbox, PS2, etc
Aces High is fantastic...sure, we all have personal peeves with things we'd like to see fixed/added/removed. But overall, I love the game despite it all.