[Suggestion] Mid-air repair kits for ESF, using up flare slot

Right now it seems like the biggest thing against aircraft isn't necessarily lock-ons, it's flak.

The thing about flak currently, is that it either doesn't do enough damage to scare off aircraft, and only draws their attention to you personally, or it does so much that it reduces your craft's HP down to nearly nothing assuming you book it out of there.

Right now the only thing you can do against this is run off way out of the battlefield and manually repair up, before coming back and trying to get one run in before blowing up.

What if there was one item that allowed you to counter some of the flak damage but without giving you blanket resistance to it? Like the regen tubes for infantry, but this one would only work after avoiding damage for 5 seconds?

Pilots would still easily be blown out of the sky and learn to fear AA, but at the same time, good pilots that can duck behind cover for a bit can still make their way around the battlefield without having to completely leave it altogether or having to find a flat spot to land on which might be impossible in the area they are currently flying in?

As it sits, it wouldn't make you invincible. Any area with good AA coverage will still push you back or become outright no-fly zones, but in those areas with only a few AA guns it might give you enough breathing room to get shot, get an idea of where they are, take cover somewhere nearby, and try your hand at taking it out?

As long as we set up the conditions right, this wouldn't be an item you could really use in a dogfight to make it too OP, especially if it didn't heal you the entire way up.

The whole purpose of this is to make it so that running into one or two AA units isn't a big deal unless you're an idiot.

We already have passive healing, but this is more of a quick fix that is available before you are on fire.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Insight? If you don't like this idea please let me know, and let me know if there is anything we can add to this to make it work if it doesn't.

TLDR;

A regen pack for pilots to heal them up quickly if they avoid damage for a few seconds, so it takes more than one or two AA units to cover an entire area of sky.

EDIT: Perhaps a drainable flak-specific shield that has a slow cooldown and long-recharge time? This makes it so that the life of the ESF doesn't end up unintentionally expanded upon, and can only be used in flak-specific times, and ONLY during the initial flak-volleys of attacks because of a long timer and recharge. Afterwards they are fully vulnerable as per normal.

This would only make it so that one or two AA MAXes don't have too much power against ESFs. As it sits it's too tough for ESFs to approach the battlefield without being wiped out by enemies they can't see before they reach less than half health.

For the record, I try and main AA MAXes in big fights and I would hope that something like this would help our pilots.