I've found that a little flying time to target is a great time to familiarize oneself with the aircraft and practice formation flying, and also for shootin' the $hit (in many ways just as important as shooting the enemy), although this has to be kept in the context of a limited time to fly.
I've found MadJek's missions to have an excellent balance in this regard, and often are quite surprising, as a mission might look like it's going to be a long one and you end up bumping into an enemy patrol in 5 minutes. Most of his stuff can be found on M4T.
Finally an invaluable tool that my squad uses is called "the twenty second rule". Whenever someone crashes on takeoff (a not so rare event, and usually not by a novice ) The host has the option of calling "twenty seconds" and everyone has a free for all and shoots whoever is closest to them, usually accompanied by mad cackling and mock insults, and then in twenty seconds or so he'll restart the mission. It's really great fun and some (O.K., most) even look forward to it.
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