Extended pilot skills

[Scoundrel]

I've been contemplating pilots in my later career game and, following the gameplay concept of pilots as "flight assistants," I have a few ideas that would make the investment in pilots worthwhile, especially late in the game:

Enhanced stability control: as a pilot gains more skill levels, the rocket wobble due to frequency is reduced, to the point where a 5 star pilot can make any craft flyable, whereas a 1 star pilot would make little difference. Basically it turns pilots into an automatic PID tuner/damper.

Waypoint Locator: allows a pilot to designate a marker from the map menu to register as a target to make flying or driving about a little easier. At a higher level it could even allow the player to set their own waypoints.

Ideas linked to specific pilot skill levels:

** Ability to stay at a fixed heading: this would make pilots useful as rover drivers so that rovers maintain their correct heading despite terrain affecting how the rover performs. Obviously this could also be used for aircraft in certain circumstances.

*** Ability to stay at a fixed pitch and heading: this would allow aircraft with pilots to maintain a fixed pitch (say 10° or whatever is designated at the time) and heading which would allow aircraft to fly large distances at physics timewarp without having to adjust it every 10 seconds.

**** ILS overlay: a simple ILS overlay that makes landing at KSC - or perhaps other locations as well - easier. It continues the trend of using pilots as navigation aids rather than actually doing the flying for us.

***** Transfer aid: a high level pilot should help the player, when a planet or whatever is selected as a target, create a point on the node which makes it easier for the player to place a maneuver node for a transfer burn to the target. I'm not suggesting that the node should be automatic, just that it makes it easier to find and place it without having to hunt around for it for 5 minutes.

Does anyone else think this should be in the game? Or would this stuff be best left as a mod?

[Unfawkable]

An Autopilot for Rovers would make Pilots infinitely more useful, I would love to see that.

[Kegereneku]

An Autopilot for Rovers would make Pilots infinitely more useful, I would love to see that.

Indeed