Picked this game up just out of sheer curiosity and I'm pleasantly surprised, usually console flight games suck but this one is actually very good.
The only minor gripe is that you have to play through the whole campaign on one difficulty setting, no changing up as you get better.
It looks great, the sound and the score are top notch and even on Arcade difficulty it's moderately challenging. IL2 is probably not for everyone but it's a largely successful attempt at a console flight sim, god the last real flight sim I played was probably Tornado back in '95 :o