I grew up on flight sims thanks to my Dad. He loved WWII dogfighting and was enthralled with the IL-2 Sturmovik series, but he got me into it with Crimson Skies.
Now when we have some free overlapping time and the time zones are kind to us (He's in Europe), we hop into VTOL-VR together and it's just fantastic. Can actually wave at each other from our cockpits while we're on different continents and with the new helicopter DLC we can pilot/gunner in the same craft with each other.