That was a good episode. But it was kind of a funny place to draw the line at something being “realistic” or not, simply because what you’re doing in the game would ordinarily be done by dozens (or hundreds) of others in real life. The game is attempting to realistically model the elements of your forces - do your Tomcats engage a MiG the way they did in Top Gun? - it isn’t a command sim where you sit at a desk and get reports from people on what is happening.