After playing a few rounds on the titan server tonight I decided to start a gunship squads. A good friend of mine was in my squad so I was playing a little looser than I usually do. We were just trying to have a good time. I was piloting and my friend was gunning. About half way through the round we went to grab the gunship after respawning and a random non TG player that wasn't in my squad took the pilot seat. I ended up in the gunner seat. We had been in it all round so I was taken by surprise when I pressed E and ended up rocketing off with some guy that had no idea what to do with it. After flying to the other side of the map I my pilots name come up with the "you will be kicked if you don't join a squad" message. I held my finger over the F1 key and waited... Finally he got booted from the server and I took control of the falling gunship. I got a good laugh out of that. I could have been in trouble if I hadn't been ready for it because we weren't very high at the time.

My gunner and I spent most of our time hunting for the other teams air assets. I saw the same player jump out of the gunship and let it crash at least three times after we scared him with gunfire or a single missile. Apparently he wasn't prepared for a dogfight so we didn't have much trouble from the air until someone that knew how to fly took control. This second pilot seemed like he was doing nothing but hunting us. We were having a very hard time staying in the air. He knew exactly where we were at all times and would come at a perpendicular angle and cut us down before we had a chance to react. When we looked behind us he came from the side and when we looked sideways he came from behind. Most of the time we never even saw where he came from. The lesson I took from this is: people on the ground should spot air assets as often as possible. I always do this but now I know from experience how important this is.