In fairness, my first comment was very rude.
That said, to the guy who said my comments were based on my thoughts not experience, that isn't so. I have tried no icon settings in AH and elsewhere. In my opinion it is absurdly harder to manage SA with no icons that it would be in a real aircraft. I will agree that icons make it easier that it should be, but until there is another solution icons are closer to the real deal than no icons. Icons also promote the chance of having a fight instead of an ambush.