A decent pilot can fly cas with a littlebird without dying if they know when to fly in for strafing and when to stand off and fire from a distance, and if they had a repair truck at the base. Granted there is still the unlucky "getting sniped out of the pilot seat" situation but that happens even in an A10 if you are unlucky enough ( I have been...)Black Mamba wrote:--buff the littlebird up a bit so it can do a decent Air support job--
This is probably getting into off topic here but I'm more interested in seeing little birds with skids for those trickier/cooler looking insertions. The first time I flied for folk was on the mission where you have to get the hostages to the russian bases in cherno, and I was in charge of picking up/dropping off Bravo as they moved around the maps checking out different camps, that type of helo use leads to some really fun game play and to me is more fun than "Alpha AT flies, then ditches the chopper because we won't need it."