Once in that range, you hav to fly him to your ship, get close to a pod, and when you're on the correct side, it'll prompt you to press the f key to grab/board, depending on where you are.
Since I updated to 0.24, the IVA thumbnails (in the lower left corner) have only been changing ~once per second, resulting in a jerky animation. Is anyone else having this problem and is there any way to fix it? Everything else runs fine.
A U2 only has to wheels, not counting those on the wings, which have to be tilted in that direction for them to contact the ground. So you basically have to stop and then just let the plane tilt to either side. Edit: which is why it's extremely difficult to land.