Kitbasher,
Yes, playing those sims are great. We used to have partys and hook about 8 computers together and fly combat missions.
Me and one of my flying buddies were the "aces". How we got so many kills, is we would immediately go to the outside view and fly the sims like an R/C plan, till time to "lock-on". It's very hard to outfly someone like that...But, I hadn't to fly against my buddy, I would always slit-s right into the ground trying to follow him
Loads of fun! Wish I could still do it.....