Yellow icons are people that have joined the same mission as you are in.
Orange icons are if your squadmates if you are in a squadron and have turned "squad hilight" on.
White icons are your wingman you have selected by the command:
.wingman [callsign]
He will also show up white on the map.
If you get the message that you can't take that plane it is either because:
- The hangar for the plane is destroyed (click on MAP and see what the status of the hangars are on your field, enabled/disabled)
- You are on a carrier trying to choose a non-navy plane.
- You are on a vehicle base trying to choose a plane.
I got screenshots of the 3 types of fields (small, medium, large) with labels on each structure on my homepage. Compare to what you see from tower to learn how each structure looks like.
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