Dropship crushing is fine they just need to tone it down a bit.

once milita vehicles are removed again this problem will fix itself :)

No I pilot a HAV.

when you see a beam of light on the ground around you , like a UFO is landing on you, get outta the way!

Dropship crushing is a perfectly viable tactic. Think about it, if a helicopter pilot is good enough to land smoothly on your head, you're boned. They don't need to make it impossible to crush people, they just need to make it so that dropships take a reasonable amount of damage from nose-diving into the ground, this way, only the Best-of-the-Best will be parking on your head, and it might even look cool when they do it ;)

Its already dangerous. I take them down easily if they come in my aim.

No, I run a HAV and they're not always militia.

There are a few reasons why Dropship crushing is so prevalent in the current build:

1. Free militia vehicles - NOT going to happen in later builds, or post-release.
2. Lack of coordinated teamwork means that you're not being backed up by AV guys against the dropship, AND means that the pilot's struggling to find willing gunners.
3. Wonky turret mechanics mean it's hard to fire where you're actually aiming while in motion, and keeping up movement is important to avoid AV fire.

When these LEGITIMATE issues are fixed, Dropship crushing will be less of a problem.

And a VERY definite NO to the 360-Ü turret idea. That would negate the possibility of landing, which is kind of an important thing for Dropships to be doing.

why, you havent even seen what a fighter can do

I don't, but my team does. And I'm a team player.

In my experience (getting attacked by Dropships AND as a gunner for one), you can hit targets in front and behind well enough.

And as I mentioned, a 360-Ü turret would either be useless on top or get in the way of landing.

And as an added bonus, it would make teamwork less important.

Also, Dropships are troop transports, NOT ground attack weapons.

Inertial dampeners don't negate the requirement to land when the pilot is getting out, by the way.

No idea how pilot ID means a thing in relation to what I was saying. Please explain.

And those "landing stilts" aren't large enough to cover a turret.

And Dropships can already dominate ground targets if they're flown well, but this would reduce the skill requirement to achieve it.

And why would they need to get out? Maybe to let someone else take over piloting, or to switch vehicles (leaving it in the background), or to repair it with a repair tool if there's no armour repper, or it's on cooldown, or if you've lost your gunners and need to capture something, or if you want to speed up the capture process on a critical objective.

Not to mention under-belly turrets on transport helicopters is a stupid design decision and there's plenty of good reasons not to do it in the real world as well. Your gunner would be even more vulnerable than the gunners are now, for one.

And the turrets in this game CAN'T be controlled by pilots and are MANNED by gunners, not controlled from inside the cockpit, which would alter the dynamic and reduce the vulnerabilities of the vehicle by a significant margin, further emphasising the lack of support for teamwork in your suggestion.

If the gunner stayed in the same spot, we're back to the overly-vulnerable, lack of teamwork, and not practical for real-world consideration arguments.

Door gunners on transport helicopters make sense. A gunner underneath the same transport helicopter wouldn't be practical, which is why nobody does it.

Door gunners on Dropships make sense for the same reason, and gunners on the bottom of the Dropship make less sense for the same reason.

They make the most sense for a transport, which is why we have them. Fighters and other combat fliers aren't implemented in DUST yet, which is why that's not relevant.

And that gun on the bottom doesn't usually have a full 360-Ü firing arc on attack helicopters OR the transports which have them.

Drop Ships need to take more damage from hitting the ground, and other items, and to answer the OP, just as the CRU is disabled on a Drop Ship sitting on the ground, you could to the same for the guns.

That would make one weapon only viable for anti-air, and the other only useful for anti-ground, and that would be quite interesting.

I don't think it suits for Dropships though, and redesigning everything just to redesign things seems wasteful, but this would be nice on a "Bomber" type aircraft with a large main turret on the bottom and a light turret on top, with a fixed forward-firing light weapon under the pilot's control.

And that's exactly why I have a problem with the idea when it comes to Dropships.