Flightsims that balance fun with realism

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Since I bought my X55 for elite dangerous I've been looking onto other sim type games and was wondering if I had missed some options.

I have elite premium beta and I'm loving that,
I have DCS A10C and while I love the challenge and complexity it is somewhat hard to play casually with all the SOI and avionics stuff, I just don't have time to learn all the systems. (oh for the days of single life)
I have MS Flight and the DLC but that's a dead product.
I have War thunder and I'm enjoying it but wish it was modern times rather than historical.

I'm thinking about FC3 and Black Shark as they are 60% off on steam right now but I guess they are going to be more like A10C and a little hard to pick up and play.

Are there any helicopter sims that aren't mega realistic?
 
FC3 is less technical than A-10 and more accessible casually - Also of note is that you get to fly the Su-25T and P-51 trainer for free in the latest versions of DCS.

Nate
 
FSX gold which has the acceleration expansion has some fun challenges to go with the sim including red bull acrobat challenge I think although you will need impressive CPU power to run it.

If you do fancy going back in time then IL2 Cliffs of Dover is more of a sim than war thunder and has some great fan made campaigns available. I use a warthog which has the same amount of button and switches and it is perfect for full sim WW2 cockpit controls.
 
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Have a look at Thirdwire's selection of combat flight sim games. They use basic radar, so most are based 1950's - 1980's. Wings Over Vietnam 2 is immersive of the lot. Has a big mod community too.
 
Are you completely ruling out historical flight sims?

Rise of Flight is a free ww1 flight sim that is easy to pick up.
 
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