Why no flying vehicles?

i was just wondering why the engineer has never been given any flying vehicles? it would be really fun on a large map? can any1 explain?

I don't know if I can give a perfect explanation, but I always use flying vehicles to pancake things, even thought it doesn't give much xp. It's just fun. Maybe flying vehicles are considered too powerful? The least eng's can get is a Cicada or Raptor.

either of them would be real fun. i have also just thought about the ion cannon of one of the assualt maps. if that was a little smaller with smaller blast radius and low firing rate it would make a great turret that would be verty different to the other current ones.

Engineers were able to spawn flying vehicles at one time, but they were a nuisance on smaller maps like Tutorial Classic.

Vehicles, flying or wheeled, belong on onslaught/assault maps and not on dm/tdm/ctf maps. Most of the time, they just get in the way of the game play.

If I wanted to play VINV, I woould vote for the VINV map.

thats a good point. i just thought that because engineers have other vehicles already i flying one would make it more fun on larger maps. but i think ur right that it would just crowd maps.

I can code a check to see if the game is Vehicle Invasion or Onslaught or something like that. If the check returns true I bet I could make it so the player can spawn flying vehicles, otherwise they could'nt. I just need to see the code for AbilityLoadedEngineer I'm guessing its called.