Commander birds eye view via scout plane

[LuckyOne]

I suppose you could make it like PR where only the commander sees the the scout plane radar and he then marks the positions on the mini-map.

That's the only plausible way of making it work in this engine AFAIK.

But there's a very old thing people tend to forget about... The scout plane IS a commander vehicle! You can spot and mark, and call arty and all the fancy stuff from it (the second seat).

The only problem is that you need a buddy to fly it for you. And that's sometimes much harder to "implement"

[Airshark79]

PR has something like this. Basically, you click the UAV button, and an AI-controlled Predator flies a pre-determined path. The commander can then look through it's camera using regular and IR vision modes, and spot/mark targets.

Unfortunately though, UAVs of today can stream their images back to their commanders. Piper Cubs and Fi-156s of WWII didn't have this ability. Only radio communication...so it brings up a trade off. Do we keep the commander role more traditional and realistic; or versatile, fun, and slightly more arcadish?

Would be great to do scout plane version of this. Flying with two trying to coordinate is pretty much impossible. Too many things to shoot you down and network issues make useful recon almost impossible.
PR also has a great method to handle abuse, with a fuel system.