I've thought about this in the past was well. What is needed is a calculator that can take inputs of lat, lon, heading, and a desired offset forward/backward and left/right in feet or meters, and then output the new lat and lon accounting for the offset in position. This would allow you to precisely build large formations out of smaller ones. Take the attached image of a 12 plane formation for example. In CFS3, you could create this formation from two 6 plane formations using the shotai formation type. So to build it, you would set up the first formation of six in MB to get the lat and lon for all the route points. MB will also display the heading. Then you enter that info and the required offset for the second formation to get the lat and lon points for the second formation. If all other route parameters are the same, it ought to work.
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