Ok, the title is a bit misleading, mainly because dropships move. What I mean by this is something like a plane that cannot stop moving much like the UAV out of
this. (Credit to Abdhul Alhazred)

But it drops troops like this:



And they would have parachutes. These would probably be best if they were bought as grenades and some lua magic activated if the actor was travelling downwards at a specific speed. They would also work for jumping off cliffs.

This obviously would only work in a wrapped map with a high enough ceiling but would allow you to deploy actors without risk of the dropship getting shot down before it can drop people off.

I would help but my coding ability is limited and I suck at spriting, but I can try lol.

Can't see the image.
Anyways, have a dropship sprite.

Now that's a sprite.

A parachute? Hmm...
Well, you could make it a bomb, that gibs into a parachute, and with lua you could make it stick into the character and reduce it's falling speed or set it into an specific speed.

The only thing I know about that is how to give the character the specific speed, but I don't know how to attach the parachute into him.

Hey, Lizard, mind giving that thing some propellers? I'd love to try coding it up.

Nah, a bit busy.
Edit a DS engine instead, should do the trick.

Thanks for all the help guys I'm sort of learning how to sprite at the moment but for a parachute there is one in the wermacht mod? When the plane gets shot down it gibs an actor with a parachute which would work the same way.

Oh and that sprite looks like god, Lizard. Just what I was thinking of.

The Theater of war mod has parachutes as crafts, I guess that's your best bet, because with those you're 100% sure they are not attached to the actor. Haven't looked at the wehrmacht mod yet, dunno how that works.