Actually Jon, it was merely a timing thing.
It was neither personaly, nor something I would have done diff. for any other player.
If someone has to relog real quick, I might hold open the flight window before I close flight a min. or two extra, but by the time you got back the fight was starting, and I had closed flight several min. before.
I have opened up flight for a player to take off in the past. But 99% of the time I won't when I am mere moments from calling FIGHT ON.
Had you shown up a min or so earlier, I prob. would have let you up.
I had already called NoJoy time, and was in the process of typing out the KILLSHOOTER IS OFF!! bit. and at that point, nobody save HT himself is gonna be allowed up.
Had you shown up while everybody was still on climbout of course you could have taken off. Again, just timing, nothing else.