Great post, Buzzsaw.
Over at the ATAG Server, "we" (meaning our mission designers, hardly "me" LOL) are looking at just what you've recommended based on the same logic. The Single Player/Quick Mission/Cross Country mission has a good spawning mode - engine ticking over, engine warmed up for immediate take off. This included the problematic Hurricanes which are proving extremely difficult to cold start otherwise.
Unfortunately, the Single Player spawn mode we desire does not transfer over to Multiplayer Server mode --at present, as our intrepid designers already have found. Work arounds are being investigated as a high priority -- we need those Hurricanes! (Actually, we have an "airstart" spawn mode for the Hurries at Eastchurch, but understandably the Hurricane squads desire a ground take off).
Your post above was far more detailed and polished compared to my presentation to the ATAG admins, using descriptors as "BoB pilots were awakened by their batmen at 3:30 a.m. and sat up in bed sipping their hot tea, listening to the erks starting and running up the Merlins in the distance." Luckily, the admins were way ahead of me and needed no convincing. LOL
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