I think it an excellent idea.
Only thing better would be an "OLD" system that actually Blew you plane up in mid flight, recorded the kill, and then re-spawned you back where you left off nearly instantainiously. It allowed you to get right back into the "Learning" without missing a beat.
It was an excellent way of keeping the involved parties interest to a high degree.
Not having to re-up and fly to your opponent cut down wasted online time for those that had limited time. It kept you at the fight where the learning is done.
In the DA you do have the opportunity and time to learn lame DA merge tactics that rarely apply to Main Arena play.
But i have always said that the training system could use something like this to keep the training event realistic and interesting.
Seriously, don't we think that the trainies want to see things blow up?
If we dont give it to them..they will just show up in the MA's, ill trained, just to see the explosions.