Why would the pilot need to land? You can just jump out and activate your inertia dampener. They did it in the intro.
EDIT: I mean more specifically what difference does it make, if you hop out of the dropship over an objective, they should be rewarded for your choice?

Pilot Commission

In a similar way to how a Squad Leader earns a commission, I think Pilots (Dropships but possible we could give it to all vehicle drivers in future) should earn a commission for any Actions players from their ship do.

Why? For the encouragement of Dropship Pilots to do their job and ferry troops around to objectives.

So how do we do it?

Well, we can do it like this; When a player enters the Dropship, a timer (hidden) begins to tick down, we can have this around say, 10 seconds (A good time for ferrying people right?), when the 10 seconds are up, the bonus is ready but inactive. The Dropship arrives at the objective and the other players jump out. The moment they exit the Dropship the bonus becomes active. It'll last for a period of time (30 seconds?) which is easily enough time for players to kill and capture the objective.

We can work off of the current commission though I'd prefer an increase in it. The players will receive no bonus, only the pilot.

So, first, why the 10 seconds first? I feel players could abuse the dropship by it landing, then people hopping in and out, killing something and then hopping back in and then carrying on getting a lot of bonus points for the pilot. 10 Seconds isn't long and its very easy to take 10 seconds if you've picked someone up and gone and got them. It also means hovering spawn points wont get commission points, but should get a Spawn bonus.

This is good, but don't forget you need something to encourage blueberries to use my dropship for transport.

Small maps and free LAV's make waiting for a taxi less than atractive. Why put in a call for a taxi and cool your heals for it to arrive when you can drive your own jeep or just hoof it? Most FPS players are not very patient and won't wait.

I've put some thought into this and realized that while a dropship could function as a taxi for singletons or pairs, that's not a game changer. LAVs can handle the simple transportation needs of one to three mercs.

What a dropship does that no other vehicle can do is insert a large enough organized force onto an objective to take it from a well determined enemy. LAVs and hikers can only arrive after being exposed to fire and typically must navigate one or two easily defended choke points. A dropship can arrive overhead and insert up to six heavies with HMG's right on target. That is the true power of a dropship.

But that is also its weakness. It is a weakness because it requires an organized squad of seven including the pilot to make it effective. The current squad limit of four results in one pilot and three attackers, hardly enough to take an objective away from a team that wants to keep it. All three would be fighting constantly and not have an opportunity to start the hack to prevent reinforcments from arriving.

The ideal force would likely consist of five heavies, a logi, and the pilot. The pilot could wear a logi suit, but I suspect the pilot suit would be a better choice once it arrives. The five would jump and take the objective while the logi used a turret to prevent reinforcements from arriving, then jump out and res, heal, and resuply before the pilot lands and picks them up to repeat.

But that force won't magically appear from a bunch of random blue dots. Truely dedicated pilots would fly without reward, but we can't deliver what doesn't exist. The dropship is nerfed because it's true weapon doesn't exist. They require an organized force of seven to operate. That could be an enlarged squad or a pair of four man squads.

I've put some thought into this and realized that while a dropship could function as a taxi for singletons or pairs, that's not a game changer. LAVs can handle the simple transportation needs of one to three mercs.

What a dropship does that no other vehicle can do is insert a large enough organized force onto an objective to take it from a well determined enemy. LAVs and hikers can only arrive after being exposed to fire and typically must navigate one or two easily defended choke points. A dropship can arrive overhead and insert up to six heavies with HMG's right on target. That is the true power of a dropship.

But that is also its weakness. It is a weakness because it requires an organized squad of seven including the pilot to make it effective. The current squad limit of four results in one pilot and three attackers, hardly enough to take an objective away from a team that wants to keep it. All three would be fighting constantly and not have an opportunity to start the hack to prevent reinforcments from arriving.

The ideal force would likely consist of five heavies, a logi, and the pilot. The pilot could wear a logi suit, but I suspect the pilot suit would be a better choice once it arrives. The five would jump and take the objective while the logi used a turret to prevent reinforcements from arriving, then jump out and res, heal, and resuply before the pilot lands and picks them up to repeat.

But that force won't magically appear from a bunch of random blue dots. Truely dedicated pilots would fly without reward, but we can't deliver what doesn't exist. The dropship is nerfed because it's true weapon doesn't exist. They require an organized force of seven to operate. That could be an enlarged squad or a pair of four man squads.

Keep in mind that there is that couple of seconds where you can't do anything after landing with an intertia dampener, leaving you exposed, and two turrets facing opposition directions (even though you propose only one gunner) aren't going to do too much suppressive fire with the missile nerfs.
Also to counter you argument, sometimes there is a common invisible language that most people respond to. Drop six blues off over an enemy objective, they will take it but the invisible language is limited and people will disperse instead of hold it so conclusively squads are the way to go. But blues aren't completely useless, just some.
Also my ideal squad would consist of 2 heavies, 2 shot gun scouts, 2 logis, and the pilot. The great contrast between heavies and scouts gives this squad more versatility. But that's off topic.

Pilot commission should be based on something like the # of troops dropped, the # kills turrets get, change in position (for the amount of time you save your team/corp and the protection granted by a dropship) and but a majority of commission should come from op suggestion.