I loved taking off on a runway in BF4 and wasn't a fan of bombers/planes being able to spawn in the air right away at the beginning of the match and bomb you before you got to the first objective barely taking it most of the time in BF1 and BFV.
@TankerFlankerI dont think there's a runway, I prefer it popping into field on some maps since that stops the vehicles from taking fire before anyone gets in them. However when its miles out on an Aircraft Carrier or anything like that where enemy air cant really reach thats fine by me.
I distinctly remember them also mentioning the vehicle calls in had air vehicles as an option, where you call it in and can go back to the spawn screen and take off with it, though that could be a fever dream on my part and I'm spreading misinformation.
Edit: Double checked, you cant call in air vehicles. At least "theloudout.com" says so.
I'd be okay with it if the runways were way back in secure areas but then you're potentially wasting a lot of map space. While not as dramatic, spawning mid air was both better for balance and looked less silly then having two runways a few hundred meters apart. And before someone pulls a muscle frantically grabbing their anti realism card I am fully aware that BF is not a sim but even so there are still practical limits and having runways that close to one another was bridge too far.
Aint gonna lie, i actually quite enjoyed BF3's "race for the vehicle" at the start of matches on Caspian (at least nostalgically). It was a game-mode within a game-mode.
Could be a feature in Portal, since BF3 maps are featured, but in the main game air vehicles will spawn in the air, from the deploy screen.
