Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post Caspar.
After I posted I was just thinking the same thing that #2 shouldn't be second in comand anyway, and was going to make that my point in my next post, but you beat me to it
The whole promotion thing for the player seems a bit strange in IL2. In a German campaign for example, if the player starts at the lowest rank ( I usually do, as I like to work my way up the ranks ) it would be expected to start as #8 and as you improve move up to #4 or #2 but still as a wingman. Then after a couple of promotions, say to Leutnent, you would move to #7 with your own #8 wingman.
However, in IL2 you will still be a wingman at the rank of Hauptman, which I doubt would ever have been the case in reality, and then at the next promotion you are suddenly in command of the whole schwarm !
If that could be fixed it would make a big difference to the immersion factor in an offline campaign.
I know TD must be overwhelmed by suggestions, but if we don't ask then we won't get. I will say thanks in anticipation that you even consider it.