I understand why they did the A/PAN but I still think that if IFE had made the CD version for DCS it would've sold a lot more.
Also I still think that DCS needs to create a "pilot school" focused on a single trainer with really in depth missions that cover a realistic student syllabus instead of just briefly showing you how to land a plane etc like it's currently done. Showing how to hold patterns, how to enter them, what speeds etc. I get not caring for doing cold starts, but if you're playing a simulator in multiplayer and 99 servers out of 100 has people just randomly landing wherever they want how they want (or just ditching the plane since it's quicker than landing and rearming) it seriously breaks the immersion.