The skies are blue, beaches golden, hills green and those bloody palm trees are a menace when you're trying to do a low level strafing run over a peasant village erm.... I mean pirate hideout. In all honesty, the scenery is just so nice it makes you want to chuck up.
Compared to something like Dawn Patrol, the helicopters and ships aren't particularly stunning. Two years ago they would have been fantastic but now they are merely adequate.
People who enjoy having piles of bizarre and pointless viewing angles in a simulation are going to be disappointed, as remarkably few are available. This isn't so bad as the programmers have included the important ones such as chase and missile. A decent padlock view would have been nice but I suppose there's no real need for that sort of thing in a helicopter sim.
