Seeing as there is only a basic level aerial afterburner module to skill into; I'm curious if CCP was planing on releasing level 3 and 5 tier modules. There are level 5 modules for ground vehicles.

Fitting and Demonstation Video
Verdict: working as intended

Antics aside in my test, this appears to be a module fitting glitch that allows you to greatly modify the speed bonus of a dropship; a milita dropship that is in the video demonstration. The kicker is, it looks like it is going to be an essential glitch with the upcoming lock-on modifications to swarm launchers. Evasiveness and quick extractions are going to be key to staying alive and operational. This does not guarantee safety from AV attacks because the initial module activation time still leaves a pilot and crew open to a swarm volley or forge gun hit. While in radial switching some flight controls and view finding is locked.

Additionally important to note, the fitting costs of afterburners can be quite taxing with 38 cpu and 145 pg. This makes its fitting on a shield dropship much more difficult when accounting for adding upgrades to guns. However, the additional low slots and powergrid on a armor dropship allow for greater degrees of freedom in this regard--note armor dropships are slower and more vulnerable to swarm launchers. In these regards, things appear balanced.

I understand this topic may be more fitting under technical support and bug; however I want to put it forward for more field testing and discussion in the regards of dropship roles with upcoming changes in 1.4 to AV.

This fitting example, whether intended or not by the vehicle development team allows Dropship pilots to serve a viable and necessary role of troop deployment and extraction whilst remaining survivable in a highly dangerous environment.

Forge 600m???? More like 300m and swarms lock untill 400m but missiles dont fly that far.

Sure, in PUB matches you might find some fun uses for it (like in the video), but if you're up against a real team with real AV on it, no one is shooting at you while you're moving anyway. All that does is alert you to the AV's position. Real AV players let a dropship pilot slow down and try to do something useful, and then unload... and dual afterburners don't really help combat this. You'll be dead before the burners ever kick in.

Valid point. It may be too big of a trade-off for PG and space for resistance modules and heat sinks. In the case of finding AV players it would be nice to see Active scanner modules work more efficiently at scanning lower db readings.