Why in the campaign are only the completed missions counted?  In real live all missions were recorded.  In my campaign it's August 1944, and I've completed 89 missions.  I know I've failed at least 10.  These should be recorded!  M$ should have put a log book in there like in CFS1.  Maybe you could write a little something about how your mission went, then have a page where your complete stats are listed.  I don't like the way they kept track of your stats in CFS2 and 3, It's not "as real as it gets."  There are a actually a lot of things wrong in the game .  9th Air Force fighter-bombers didn't get in as many dogfights as you do in this game.  And even though kills in the air counted the same as if you blow up a plane on the ground, they did seperate them.  Francis Gabreski is famous for his combat record. 36 1/2 emeny figthers, 31 in WWII and 5 1/2 in Korea.  In WWII Gabreski only shot down 28 fighters while destroying 3 on the ground, the last being the one that did him in.  But those 3 were always seperate.  As in real life they should be seperate in the game.

And what about probable and damaged aircraft and ground targets?  You can waste all your ammo on one target (As I normally do in a dogfight .) and he won't go in after hitting him a few times, that's a damage.  And when you think you shot someone down but no one saw him go in, it's a probable.  I never played IL-2 but does it have anything like that?

It's a good idea but if I run into fighters it's normally after I've bombed, strafed, and rocketed (is that a word? ???.).  So all I'll have is my eight 50s.  I'll try it in free flight.