After reading ach's post about the primer and the dialog that followed I decided to lobby for a 7th seat in the Transport Chopper. When i first bought BF2 and descovered that only six persons can fit in a slick i smiled and said, "Man, another example of getting close to making a near awsome game." As we all know it makes no sence to fly a mutil million dollar piece of equipment and leave it there to be captured by the enemy or to fall from the sky destroyed after a squad has ejected from it.

Once i found that another seat was added to the heavy jeep i first thougth, Good night, those Tac Mod guys can do anything with this game. next i thougth, yess!! we can get a transport helo pilot.
I did not write on this earlier cause The War Lords had me in England with the British SAS getting ready for the scrim. LOL, i find a way to say War Lords in every post! lol.

Having a 7th spot in the slick would be one of coolest things to happen to the Tac Mod! Yeah, i said that.

Here is the S.O.P.
Helo squad is formed.

Squad leader is in the slick.
other members are in the Gunships or multi slicks. if there are plenty of slicks, little birds and Gunships you can easily get a full six man chooper squad!! Heck if there are loads of choopers there maybe should be a teamspeak channel for them to get on! Just like in real life.

Assuming a C.O. is on the team, the slick pilot will recieve orders to were to go and were to pick up players and were to drop them off. Were to do false insertions, Were to pick up wounded men, were to pick up recon personel traped behind enemy lines and being stalked by the enemy, coordinate their gunships to attack places and to watch their back when droping off troops or picking up people. (In real life a Gunshiop will be the sort of wing man to the transport slick in order to keep the enemy down as the slick gets into position to drop off or pick up warriors. ( how often do you see this happen on the server? never)
The SL in the slick shoud have the coordination to press page up if the commander gives an attack order for the gunship/s. The SL would say "C.O. wants you guys to shoot that icon all to blank."

Question: how many times do you see slicks used to pick up a squad that is in danger? Never, cause there is not any deadicated slick pilots.
Just like in real life these pilots would become legend if they can rescue a wounded and retreating squad.
Example: C.O.: "Squad 3 needs an extraction and quick, they recommed coming in from the north for a low approach, tons of armor south of their position."
Slick Pilot "10-4, Squad 3 needs a bale, heading in from the north, tankers present south, over"
Slick piot who is near out of bounds or hovering at 200 meters (do not know a good hover height, do not have that worked out) gets into position.
Due to the arcade H.U.D. the pilot sees the squad leader on their H.U.D. and appraoches north only meters from the ground. If they have Gunship avaliable, (not dead or presently engaged) they can shoot up the tanks as the chooper hovers in close and pauses for a brief couple of seconds picks up the six man squad, if there are only five, so be. If the Infantry SL did not make it the C.O. will tell the pilot were to drop his cargo off at the flag the SL is going to spawn or pick up the squad leader for a transport so the squad will be together again.

You see gang this opens up a whole new varable to the game. The slicks will be like knights on a Chess board. Moving an entire squad and flanking in no time flat. (Big surprise the Army called the first Division the 7th Army Air Cavalary when the slicks became mechanized in the early 1960s. )
This can not happen if someone has to drive up to the chopper get in it, then pick up everybody, then fly to the spot and drop and land the chooper on the ground and then blow it up something!! Meanwhile another squad could be using that or it could be a diverision or something.

With the slick 7th man pilot the enemy would be all like, did some one get out, what is that chopper hoverin over there next to that bridge? i know they droped off a squad, were are they?, damn i wish we had U.A.V. on the tac mod!!

My punny brain could not phathom the added varables this would lead to in the Tac Mod with a 7th seat in the slick.

Too often the slick are used for initial spawn delayed flag caps in the begining of the maps. With the 7th man, it would be cool as hell to parahute out, cap a flag then have the pilot pick u up and do it all again, flying low and fast to the ground, nothing like it!!! The enmey would attack the flag just capt by the squad, no one would be there, meanwhile the slick pilot droped off a whole squad on the position the enemy was just at and cap a flag that gives their team the better tacital advantage. You see, they used the speed of the Chooper to make this happen.
Furthermore it is simply fun as hell to fly in as a squad just over the trees and ready to hit a location without worring about landing the chopper and all. Due to the parachutes and the small maps a well commanded slick pilot can get a full squad really anywere in seconds!!!! That would speed things up in a good way.

Another cool thing to have is a 8th seat, for a gunner!!

Another cool thing would be to have the Transport chooper act like a supply crate (no health though), if players get in it they can get their ammunitions resupplied. Why not!!!! If the slick lands at a flag that needs supplies the warriors can run up to and get some. If the Chooper stays there too long they may get shot all to blank when they leave.

This idea also makes the C.O. position more important in the Tac Mod!! communication and tactics with the slick would give the team with a compitent C.O. the edge on the mathces.

If it is possible to make this happen with the programing and all let me know.

Give me feedback on this gang if you like the idea and all.

If anyone thinks it would be boring to be a slick pilot two things, i am truly sorry; and I'll put myself in the seat and be a slick pilot for a team if it is done on the mod. By grannies i'll create a in-house squad if need be. (i plan on becoming a SM come July anyway).