This is really an issue for me too. With A10C i have no problem doing full alignment because I can setup all the weapon systems while its being executed (laser codes, CBUs, dumb bombs, etc.). I even have the option to do fast align in A10 if I do not want to wait. I can not do stuff like that in F14. There is nothing to prepare in this extent in this beauty. After I order Jester to do fine align I do necessary steps to prepare the plane and then I can just sit there doing nothing for like 7 minutes or so. Yes I do agree that I can plan the mission, carefully read the briefing, but that is what I do for the first time I play the mission. Me and my friends fly the same mission multiple times which means we would have to wait for the align every other time we play the mission. That is simply a waste of time. And I will never do all the preflight checks. Why would I do that? All the systems are working anyways every single time. The real problem starts to show up when some of us fly F/A 18s while others fly F14s. The first ones are able to already be in the air while waiting for the rest in F14s to finish their start up procedure, which is just unreal. Because of reasons stated above we never do cold start in F14 (and we do that in every other plane) which is a pity. It is the only module I own I can not do cold start by heart.
+1 for adding that option
Heatblur, please, make it happen!