For some reason crashing shuttlecraft, and free flight between space and atmo with shuttlecraft and runabouts and such seems... workable.

Crashing capitol ships takes:
A lot of land to crash on.
A lot of different types of damage and damage effects to the ship.
A reason not to, cuz it sounds like a lot of fun, and I don't think we want people randomly crashing their ships at a whim... or for griefing.

For me, at the very minimum, it means letting helmsmen have the ability to press "up" and have the ship go up, and "down" and have the ship go down. It means having a database of hundreds of pre-programmed maneuvers for evasive purposes, and it means letting helmsman set a course, select warp factors down to the micron, impulse speeds, have thruster control, etc.

If you want to get a bit more detailed - remember in star trek insurrection where Riker took control of the ship from a joystick - ok that was slightly funky, but fun nonetheless.

Enterprise - Mayweather always had the option of manually controlling the ship.

Flight Simulation at minimum means having complete ability to control the direction, speed, movement, whatever, of the ship.

This ability is no less important than say - letting doctors cure diseases, or captains order people about....

Look. If Jump to Lightspeed could do it, i HIGHLY believe that Cryptic will be able to put it in as well.