i agree a good idea
what about having the ability to have a map board you can plan your route on in the mission editor, flight plan,steer points,enemy forces,friendly forces,target point ingress/egress likely enemy routes etc etc so there would be no need for the targeting diamond all you would have to do is look on the map and fly towards the target area, something similar to "Falcon 4 kneeboard map" you can access in game or you could simply print a map of area off and use paintshop or something
these are just ideas to add more realism to the game
striker77