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I'm pretty sure the answer is 'no', and I'm completely sure that is completely dumb, but I'm just wanting to see if there's some FAQ I'm missing.

While I admit I'm biased, it seems completely ridiculous that flyers don't have to hover to pick up/drop off passengers.

No, they do not have to hover.

Nothing in the rules indicates this is the case. You follow the normal rules of embarking. i.e. using the base for measurements.

Marine A: "Oh look, our ride is here"

Marine B: "Uh, It's 5,000 feet in the air traveling at 300 miles per hour"

Marine A: "So what? Let's go!"

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
Marine A: "Oh look, our ride is here"

Marine B: "Uh, It's 5,000 feet in the air traveling at 300 miles per hour"

Marine A: "So what? Let's go!"

Ever heard of Skyhooks?

 BaconCatBug wrote:

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
Marine A: "Oh look, our ride is here"

Marine B: "Uh, It's 5,000 feet in the air traveling at 300 miles per hour"

Marine A: "So what? Let's go!"

Ever heard of Skyhooks?

I was more thinking the kojima/MGS5 version where they just tie balloons to their belts and float up to their magical new home in the sky.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
Marine A: "Oh look, our ride is here"

Marine B: "Uh, It's 5,000 feet in the air traveling at 300 miles per hour"

Marine A: "So what? Let's go!"

In the setting of warp-spawned daemons, hive-minded aliens, psychically-attuned elves that can traverse another plane and spores that can grow into ferocious, gun-toting greenskins, this is probably one of the least unbelievable scenarios I can think of.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
Marine A: "Oh look, our ride is here"

Marine B: "Uh, It's 5,000 feet in the air traveling at 300 miles per hour"

Marine A: "So what? Let's go!"

Ever heard of teleportation ?

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
Marine A: "Oh look, our ride is here"

Marine B: "Uh, It's 5,000 feet in the air traveling at 300 miles per hour"

Marine A: "So what? Let's go!"

Lol Lol

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
Marine A: "Oh look, our ride is here"

Marine B: "Uh, It's 5,000 feet in the air traveling at 300 miles per hour"

Marine A: "So what? Let's go!"

Hey, there is nothing to indicate they are 5,000 feet in the air just because they aren't hovering. They could have skimmed the ground at 300 mph, ya ever think of that? You just jump in as it goes by. Easy.

If you can't jump onto an aircraft flying 300mph successfully, you need to march back to your high school and apologize to your math teacher. What do you think all those questions were preparing your for?

"If little Johnny is running from a Waaaaagh! at 12mph, and a Stormraven is traveling towards him at 300mph..."

Yeah weird as it might seem, the only restriction would have to be included in the Airborne rule or something - and it is not.

Gravity-lifts, tractor-beams, short-range teleporters, Necronian or Aeldari portals, reiver hooks, etc.

Perhaps a reverse railgun setup: thunderhawk swoops in at 250mph,

"alright brothers, hop!"

the marines hop, in their mighty power armor, a full foot off the ground (their scale), while their feet scrape the deck magnets normalize their velocity with the gunship and they end up at the back of the bus

I am just going to put this here:

 Kommissar Kel wrote:
I am just going to put this here:

Dude, you can't just go through the windshield of a Stormraven. Are you trying to upset the Machine Spirit?

Tau can ride their drones around like hover-boards, and they don't complain.
Stormraven should be lucky if all Samson does is break a windshield.

20-45" movement is between 3x and 7x the normal movement of an infantrymen while still maintaining accurate fire.

So its probably traveling between 30 and 70 miles an hour over that time period. Only stretches credulity a bit if its swining in for a landing.

Of course that just shows how laughable calling them "supersonic" at this game scale.

 argonak wrote:
20-45" movement is between 3x and 7x the normal movement of an infantrymen while still maintaining accurate fire.

So its probably traveling between 30 and 70 miles an hour over that time period. Only stretches credulity a bit if its swining in for a landing.

Of course that just shows how laughable calling them "supersonic" at this game scale.

Yeah, but y'know, mumble mumble...not to scale..mumble...imperfect representation...mumble mumble mumble

Just, shush, okay? Just...alright? God.