A wondrously British flight sim with an old-world charm that does an exceptional job of setting the tone. It's clearly quite advanced, but it has this DOS-box vibe that compounds the 50's paperback aesthetic of humanity literally brute-forcing it's own tech into a strange new environment. It's something to do with the fact that Britain has seen fit to fly completely normal meteors on Venus and cope with the "eccentric" characteristics of the atmosphere by simply staying above the dangerous parts instead of developing new aircraft (excluding the airships) that can cope with it. Again, it's something you only see on the cover of a campy 50's sci-fi novel and i utterly love it.
The controls, while they feel somewhat odd to learn, are quite intuitive once you get a handle on them. Dogfighting from a free-rotating third person perspective is surprisingly doable, especially with the camera tracking enabled.
Overall? A lovely decade-and-a-half-old romp that will happily eat up a weekend afternoon. As somebody who loves non-warthunder combat flight sims, this catches my fancy in all the right ways.
9.5/10, would find out that collision damage doesn't exist on Venus by (accidentally) ramming into enemy fighters again.