You won't have to worry about flying into anything during cutscene, because you will be invurnable during it. (at least I think you will be, I'm going to play VAed AoA when it's finished).
I know. I meant that those things I described almost always happen to me later in a mission that starts with a long cutscene. Or in missions that starts with flying through a number of navpoints that are very far from each other....
The rule of thumb is, the more tedious it is to restart a mission, the more likely it is, that I have to restart it....
Besides in Blue Planet AoA there are only cutscenes before the battle starts, in between fights or after the fighting stops, with the exception of the cutscene in which the Temarair and company blow up the Demon that threatened the runaway cruiser (Duke or Bretonia, not sure which one) if I remember correctly.