Would it be super crazy to make it possible to fly in a planet's atmosphere? It would be like jumping to a different sector, instead however, you'd be in the given planet's airspace

Sure why the hell not!!!!!! Designing the landscape of a planet is ridiculously simple.

There should just be a graphic of your ship streaking like a meteor and plowing into the planet surface, given that only the Vulture has anything like control surfaces for atmospheric flight.

I do like the simplicity of entering the airspace though.

Look, this is a space combat game. Why do new pilots all think planetary flight should be a thing? SPACE COMBAT.

If you want planetary AND spacial flight, stop looking for space combat games. Look for a "spaceflight simulator", like KSP.

While planetary flight as a thing has merit, -1 as it's described in the OP. If it's just traveling to a different sector with a special skybox, then why not just add more sectors?

@ Luxen:

Elite: Dangerous has it right now. Star Citizen has a working prototype for it. Infinity: Battlescape is being built around it.

All the new folks coming here and asking for planetary flight are looking for a cheaper alternative to, or something to play while they wait for, one of those titles.

Lol, he said citizen. Star citizen took GS's soonTM to a whole new level. As far as anyone knows, star citizen is just a cool looking animated short film.

Anyway I think what op said could be neat, but not practical in the current state of development.

Joylessjoker, the game has been around sinse 2002, that's 15 years of player suggestions... No need to respond in such a manor, as my idea wasn't all that bad. Yes it would take work and time, everything in life does. And Luxen, not everything in VO is combat, sad you don't realize that. Mining and trading missions could be in a planets air space, as well as combat. This is supposed to be a friendly and involved community, and the way you react to an IDEA, is really not a good example of what Vendetta Online is about... Just chill out

A revamp of physics could be made. Also jumping into/ out of the atmosphere shouldn't be a thing. It should be you have to enter/exit atmosphere to jump. And you only get a part of the planet to land on. Also enough thrust and any kind of zero-g / repulsive technology would allow atmospheric flight. And just make it incredibly hard if not that. Like "don't ever stop or you'll plummet"