Ah, was just composing my other message while you replied, haha-thanks man! Okay so take off from ramp is not the appropriate choice for the carrier? I will have to hop into the sim rig to check mission settings, but pretty sure I do have take off from ramp selected, but my aircraft always spawns near elevator, and while I do have it set to spawn with aircraft systems on, I still need to do some pre-flight set up such as steer to cat, sweep wings for takeoff, kneel front strut, then finally hook up to cat...is it as simple as just setting all those functions as tasks that would need to be assigned in ME and performed at start of mission then?