If it also varies maybe just play the game as if this is what the commander of this squadron has decided and get on with it. Or transfer.
We like you to feel how desperate and scared to go up, as it was in WW1 when sometimes you are stuck with an inferior aircraft against a better equiped enemy.


Regards,

Polovski,
OBD Software, developers of immersive flight sims;
Wings Over Flanders Fields and Wings Over The Reich
http://www.overflandersfields.com
http://www.wingsoverthereich.com