Has anybody thought about getting easy perks by searching these obviously skilless noobs and shooting both them and their shades continuously down?
Speaking about whether perk farming with a shade were acceptable or not, the old saying comparing stealing an egg and an ox is still valid. On the other hand, many other games are based on getting better equipment with money and new players being born in that environment might well think the same rule would apply here. After all, they're doing it themselves in the actual game instead of paying some Korean youngster for it. And as been said, flying a perked plane doesn't make an ace. I know that by personal experience: I've earned enough perks to fly a 262, but I won't because I'd suck in one even more than in my usual ride.
The sad thing about shade based perk farming is that new players who get disappointed because they can't get kills in LW despite their "best ride money can buy" will soon leave the game, leaving the arenas to us old grumps.