On the subject of skins meeting HTC's approval....
What is HTC's policy on the swastika in user-made skins? As we all know, almost every LW plane had the
hakenkreuz on the tail fin, but the damn Germans have this assinine law against it these days....
Personally, I think it's ridiculous that the stock AH1 skins don't have the swastika. Not that I'm a nazi, but if the planes are supposed to look realistic, then they need the damn thing because the real things had it. And if the German thought police don't like it, they can lump it

. It's stupid for the rest of us to suffer unrealistic skins because of some idiotic law that applies only to Germans.
So what I propose is this: HTC should accept skins from users that have realistic, historically correct swastikas on them. And the Germans can use them or not at their own risk. And maybe some skin makers will provide 2 versions, 1 with the swastika and 1 without, so those Germans afraid of their stupid law can get the "Teutonically Correct" version. But this should not be a requirement for skin "acceptability" by HTC, IMHO.