Quote Originally Posted by omega329 View Post
Not realistic? If you'd ever stuck your head in the unfiltered exhaust straight from a engine that's "just ticking over", you'd be surprised by how hot it is...
What I meant to say is that little effect comes out of the engine on the screenshots we have seen so far, and it looks like the exhaust trail is there for no apparent reason. It follows the ship, but it not attached to it, a link is missing between the exhaust port of the engine and the trail, and that would be, you guessed it, the flare.