A feature of the game includes a horizontal tilt that happens when the jet fighter turns to the left or the right for realistic simulation.

Some are so serious about realistic simulation that they will buy real aircraft parts, like complete nose sections of written-off aircraft, at aircraft boneyards.

Like side-scrolling video games, vertical scrollers may employ parallax scrolling for a more realistic simulation of motion.

Aggressor squadrons use enemy tactics, techniques, and procedures to give a realistic simulation of air combat (as opposed to training against one's own forces).

The game has been praised for its relatively realistic simulation of real cricket.