Perk points are primarily a function of time and plane choice. No matter how bad a player might be, he or she is going to accrue perk points over a long period of time; that's just the nature of the game. How fast or how slowly depends on the plane choice, but it's going to happen.
So Fridaddy, your assertion that only the best players get perked planes is just flat out wrong. Many of the better players rarely if ever fly perked planes anyway. After all, if you're good, why do you need to fly a 262?
-- Todd/Leviathn