Nope.
It's Ace-Combat-like.
Ace combat games strike (heh) a good balance between the arcadey and the realistic, even though it's obviously biased more to the arcade side. It has very beautifully recreated real planes, nice and fun gameplay and well defined roles for each of the aircraft. The missions are interesting and varied too. On Ace Combat 5, for instance, in one mission you need to destroy a radar station in perfect synchrony with your 3 wingmen's destruction of 3 other similar stations, otherwise it's mission over. You have to do that 4 times in a row, then you must attack a huge industrial area.
The next mission, you have to disperse clouds of nerve gas on one of your countries cities, in order to save the people. Then you follow a police car chase, and finally has to destroy attack choppers.
You usually don't need to take off or land.
It's quite fun, and quite epic.