+1
I prefer to set a start delay and put spawn planes for my AI flight on the runway.
My spawn plane is somewhere at the Airfield.
If I do it correctly, I can start and line in before they start. What bugs me about this is the delayed engine start and the immediate takeoff run of the commrades with cold engines.
If I manage to line in before they start, I can try to start with my wingman, who happens to accelerate faster on the first half of his takoff run, then suddenly falls back.
Sometimes I take off as second or last and AI shows this stupid circling behaviour.
Now my trick is to let an enemy spotter fly low in a not to far distance and order my flight TAB-1-2 and TAB-2-2 to attack evrything. As soon as Im airborn, I hook rectangular and order Tab-1-1 and Tab-2-1 to cover, followed by Tab-2-8-3 or Tab-2-5-4 for close or 4 finger formation.
Then they immediately aligne to formation without wasting time by circling around.
Its a little noisance, but it works for me.

I was wondering how hard it would be to do some more of these...

http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4163c8c2.jpg

For other nations of course. They make nice props I find.

I think it's been suggested before that flags would ideally be skinable in the same way aircraft are.
From a bandwidth perspective(sited as the main reason images cannot be used in mission briefings) flags would be much smaller, and have less impact.

Regardless of such an implementation, more flags for the main countries would help with set dressing in missions.

There's probably a legal issue as with swasticas, with respect to the Nazi flag at least.

That flag could strategically be hanging rather than being straight out like the others. I've seen it done elsewhere...

Just as a bit of trivia, the flag depicted is a 50 star U.S. flag. During WW2 Alaska and Hawaii were still territories, so the U.S. flag for all of WW2 was the 48 star version.

And, yes, there are plenty of workarounds for the dreaded swastika flag, ranging from having the flag folded to just turning the swastika into a cross or leaving the central white roundel of the the Nazi flag blank.

I hadn't thought of that... interesting! Yes many flags have changed so historically accurate would be key IMHO. I was just looking up what the Canadian flag looked like at the time. Very different than the maple leaf that we have now.

Another wish urges up for later ....
To have a switch to FMB button out of the Single missions Mode to change settings and a text editor window editing mis file from the inside (pushing waypoints out of the borders or so)

WW2-era RCAF flag. 1st use of the "maple leaf roundel" that I know of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ro...41-1968%29.svg

WW2-era Canadian Flag:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...a_1921.svg.png

Changing from this flag to the Maple Leaf caused a big stink at the time, if you can believe it. (IMO, the new flag is much more distinctive and attractive.)

Those are both interesting from a history point of view but thank goodness for the new one :)