I have just bought CFS2 in Detroit for $39.99. Now I see it available in the UK for about the same.
I only muck about with both 1&2 on a laptop with an 8mb graphics card so I suffer a bit.
However I have to say that CFS2 has much improved graphics in terms of scenary but is not so good on showing aircraft at close range. Damage on both yours and the opponents aircraft is better, and the flight models are much improved.
Frankly in moderate to hard profiles the aircraft high speed stall too quickly, making dogfighting difficult.
My only oddity really is that my point of view hat on a Sytek Digital Cyborg 3D has an eight point view in CFS1 but will not register as more than a four point in CFS2. Anyone know why?