Or more importantly, the copilot cannot take control when the pilot is killed.

Glad I'm not the first person to notice this, cheers.

More than a few times I've been killed trying to swap guns and gear to get optics to level the field with the AI, because for some reason all OPFOR spawn with ARCO's, while BLUFOR only gets SL's and FTL's with RCO's, and the rest get the reflex, which just doesn't keep up. It's a huge pain.

I like how it keeps everything organized. Although I agree that the way dead bodies are opened could be tweaked a little.

Well front line combat roles allowing women is utterly irrelevant, in my opinion. The fact that there are female players in the game should warrant having female models. We can make custom faces, but they're all assuming we're all men. The women I know that play don't terribly mind having male models to play with, but it wouldn't be a very hard consideration to make for them to have the female models (current civilian, or add new) able to wear cammies, gear, and weapons, would it?