Yes, in the implimentation of L4 Aircraft or even C47's there is an intention to escape and evade while bailing out of aircraft. Not only does it display captures, and deaths when someone kills you, but not only that it drops your rank every time you Bail, and get killed / captured.
Successful bails, i dont know what they do to rank, but nobody likes seeing people getting all shot up and their rank dropping, (well, at least not your squaddies, or countrymen)
The implimentaiton of L4 aircraft would benifit this by being able to pick up the people and drive them home, Or even giving a lift on a tank, or being able to join another person while you are landed or on the ground as long as they are in a GV and you are within a certain range of the person. From there you can bail out or RTB once you get into the reach of your own radar.
When bailing out over an enemy base, it is not very wise to drop chute until you have gotten about 200ft from the ground. Doing so will give the enemy less of a target to pop the balloon on you and you go Flailing to the earth in a pile of blood and guts.
It would be better to get a plane or at least a rescue type scenario where someone can just do rescues, and therefore get perk points on rescue missions as well as those points would be added to their overall points score in every category, so in other words, if you start your rescue mission in a C47 or even an L4 observation plane then you can choose where you want your points to go, attack, fighter, bomber, or vehicle.
Each sortie where you successfully rescue a downed pilot you could get 5 to 10 perk points added. The rescued person would also get a couple of perk points and retain their kills for the mission as well as all of the points that they had gotten while flying that mission. It is a win win situation.
So the writeup is as follows
Introduction of Spotter Planes to use with artillary and air strikes
Such as the L4 aircraft
The spotter planes could be armed with the following
4 bazookas
4 smoke rockets
7.62 Cal Machine Gun Mounted to wings w/100 Rd clip
The ability to rescue troops could be programmed as follows
Persons have to be within 100ft of the plane.
The plane must have airspeed of 0, and must be greater than or equal to altitutde of 100ft of pilot that is being rescued. The pilot then can type a command to be rescue such as .board or .getin and the pilots call sign
The pilot then can take the rescued pilot back to base.
The points issue and rank could be as follows.
For the rescuing pilot. Perk points and rank points would have to be authorized as well as be able to assign the points to specific categories, I.E. 1 pilot rescued would =3 perk points and mission points of determined successful sorties. the pilot would be able to assign the perk points at the start of the sortie to classify which category they would like their perk points to be assigned to I.E. the 3 perk points would go to either vehicle, aircraft, or bombers.
The pilot that is being rescued
the pilot that is being rescued would be classified as a successful bail out, however they would not be captured as they have been flown back to base and they would have no control over the aircraft in question, they would merely sit in the back and wait until they get back to a friendly airfield.
Perk points rank points and other things
The pilot would still be fined the points on their rank however by 1/2.
They should retain the perk points as they have been rescued, and they should also have their kills still count, as well as all other things that are entailed.
How this could be implimented, by either copying the join function and editing it, or just straight editing of the join function for the spotter/ rescue planes that states that the planes cannot be joined unless they are at a stop, airspeed of 0, and the person joining must be within the range of 100ft of the plane.
