Hi Philip.
I haven’t flown Falcon for years, (but still like to browse through the forums like its some sort of magazine) - but one of the things that keeps me wanting to get back into it is the dynamic campaign and the ability to plan, not only your own flights, but the AIs as well.
(I am assuming you can still do that)
I used to love spending over an hour planning flights to knock out key airfields - timing the AI in such a way as to have them where I wanted enabling me to hit the runways.
Finding out where the dangerous fighters airbases where (MIG29, SU27 etc) and knocking those out first gave me the breather the blue sided needed to fight the ground targets.
Those first few mission were the most dangerous because of the SA2, SA3, 4s and 6s were all “fresh” as where the numbers of AAA.
But planning had it so those where hit as the bases were bombed.
Used to be 2 or 3 bases hit within the first 2 hours of the campaign.
(Used to also delay things like A10s, B52s and other vulnerable attack/bomber aircraft a day so that I had a chance to suppress a few SAMs first. As the system likes to give them stupid suicide missions by default)
Doing this, I found that I could reduce the number of reds flying around.
Man, as I type, I am convincing myself to return!
Hope this helps you.
(ps. I would leave the config file as it was before your edit personally)