Eliminate "escort" mission

[WirtsLegs]

Currently in order to use the escort task the unit must have the escort mission, however the escort mission restricts access to other A2A tasks (specifically search and engage tasks).

 

I would propose the removal of the escort mission and making the escort task available to all A2A mission types (or even ALL mission types). This would allow task switching, doing things like escorting a friendly to a point then shifting to set up a CAP patrol in an area. Or being on CAP but then moving to escort a friendly, both of these examples I can think of a lot of situations where they would make sense and accomplishing it in DCS currently is a pain due to these task restrictions.

 

I would ideally expand this wish to be more broad and say make more tasks available to more missions in general as there are many that are 'mission locked' but there is no logical reason a aircraft performing some other mission could not be given those tasks

[Exorcet]

Basically a subset of this.

[WirtsLegs]

3 minutes ago, Exorcet said:

Basically a subset of this.

Oh hey yeah I didn't see that thread, exactly!