TRK 29 do you want to merge these two threads together?
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=13708
I think it is a lot better than a plain old Team Battle. Had fun last night trying it out with Evangelus and the others. Another thing to add is that you can have battles at much higher altitude because once you have shot a plane into an unrecoverable spin you don't have to follow it down, trying not to overshoot while firing desparatly for the "Kill shot". We had a couple of battles with heavy cloud cover (rain) that were fought almost entirly above the clouds.
And as the amount of actual kills you get awarded counts for nothing you find yourself not caring at all about your personel score and thinking much more for the team. This really is how Team Battle should have been.
I'm kind of supprised the guys in the PS3 tourneys that edal set up didn't speak of this outside of their threads. Ive never read them so I never knew about the idea.
The only problem with this is if you have a random join you without a mic (or non english speaker) that jumps into a bomber/figher bomber and refuses to get out. Thankfully this hasn't happened to us yet and our random no mics have figured it out pretty fast.