You cant fly without a cockpit. There is the 2D and 3D cockpits. You should check out Seifer's cockpit editor topic in our forum. More to come to this page later.

2D Cockpit is the gif graphics file format made cockpit which you can change views only in certain directions.

3D Cockpit is the 3d model cockpit which you can view in any direction, especially with TrackIR this is very cool.

PMC Tactical cockpits forum area here

Rough 3D cockpit tutorial by ccc.

How to install 3d cockpit by ccc.