With draw over player it would be way to laggy,
here is how i thing it should be...
the airships would be in special air levels which are directly "above" the regular levels,
they would be scripted so that on the map you would show up on the same part of the map that the sky is above..
now what the actual person on the ship would see would be the ship.. duh... and instead of just a bluew backround they would be seeing a zoomed out version of the level they are above,
this might also be accomplished using the thing that makes the level zoom out, since the set shape thing for boats etc makes them almost like a different level,
it could be manipulated so that the boat and everyhting within that "setshape level" wasnt zoomed out,
but everything in the regular level was zoomed out.
the people on the ship would see the zoomed out people on the level below, but the people in the level below would see nothing but a shadow of the ship above. This is much more appropriate then them acutally seeing the ship,
because the ship is up in the sky, not paralel to them..
also it would be much much more appropriate if the airship was just a blimp, like the orkish or human blimp in Warcraft 2
