Automated Flight Leader Orders

[spreckair]

I first posted this under the General postings, but I will try under Technical Issues also.

 

I fly single player career most of the time and there is one feature that really drives me crazy.  The situation is when I am the flight leader during an interception mission and the flight is approaching the target area.  When the enemy appears and is within a certain distance, the simulation automatically has my character call out the threat and issue orders to attack, even if I, the player playing the flight leader, do not want the flight to attack at that point in time.  Then my AI flight rushes headlong into the attack seemingly without any thought to tactics and gets slaughtered.

 

As a suggestion, it would be great if there was an option to turn off this automatic communication when the player is the flight leader and allow the player to issue the attack order when ready for the flight to attack.