[Plantoid 1]

It seems that I have found a solution for the AI aircraft takeoff problem:
you must place a flight at one end of the runway in the opposite way as usual (not at the end where the planes will be airborned but the one where the takeoff run starts), set the "takeoff" waypoint option (the icon snaps to the runway) and MOVE THE ICON IN THE CENTER OF THE RUNWAY. In such a way the aircraft are lined as usual and not spawned as if you place them somewhere in the airfield,exactly in the same way as if the mod wasn't installed. May be that doing so the flight falls within the reduced airfield radius and is correctly managed.
This solution works for me, using the stock Ardennes map and an airfield with a single runway. I'm going to try an other airfield with more than one.

Please, could someone confirm that this solution is working?

Flashim

I think I may have worked it out using this idea and expanding on it:

The key is finding the centre of the runway you want to use. you then have, as near as I can tell, that 50m circle around this.

For instance:

Using Eindhoven on the Ardennes map, I placed several flights of four aircraft.

I set a 'Normfly' waypoint close to the north end of the two runways. I then designated 'Take off' and the icon snapped to the north end of the westernmost runway. If I leave it here the plane will start from this point and go in whichever direction I place the next waypoint.

We don't want that.

So, taking the 'Take off' waypoint and placing it within the 50m circle of the centre of the runway, and making sure it is one side or the other of absolute centre, the planes now snap to the end of the runway the icon is farthest from. This is similar to what we normally have when the icon is at the north end of the runway and the planes are at the south end.

A nifty wrinkle here is that, under normal circumstances, you can't use both runways to take off in the same direction - the planes snap to the westernmost runway. Now, because the eastern runway is more than 50m from the western one, the planes will take off from the eastern runway.

In all cases, AI or human, the planes will line up as we've been accustomed to for all these years.

A tip: When you're placing the icons, take a piece of paper and mark the ends of the runway on the edge. Fold the paper lining the marks up and presto!, you have the centre.

Hope this helps.

Great days all.