So if the main problem is companies wanting to avoid creating a legal precedent, and not that they want to make a few modest bucks, surely it could be solved very easily if Oleg agreed to pay for the right to use the names/images. -- So he could agree to pay one dollar for the deal. --- hell! I would even be prepared to fund it.
Of course, not being a lawyer, I really don't understand these things and am being far too naive.
Why are more Americans not kicking up a fuss about all the US planes missing from a world leading flight sim. Complain to your Senators. It could become a Presidential election issue