Since this is a suggestion forum, I'll start with the suggestions first.
The scout plane is a utility plane,
Much like the engineer is a utility kit, with it's wrench and mines,
And also like the scout with it's binoculars and the mines.
What i'm getting to is,
Where is the scout's tools? All it can do is spot enemies that are DIRECTLY below it,
and it has an artillery spotting feature that doesn't work.
My idea is,
Couldn't it have a mobile radio feature (for the commander), so you can eliminate those command trucks that no one uses.
Couldn't it have some kind of marker feature so the pilot or passenger can warn allies of enemy positions?
The result, in my opinion would be,
the players wouldn't take the scout plane as a joke anymore and actually process it as a threat.
The players would be more informed, and their performance would be boosted like a server with voip compared to a server without voip.
The bug,
The artillery spotting feature for the passenger no longer works...