Airship Falcon: Expanded

Well, for the moment, I'm stumped to be honest.

I've got all of my recruiting finished, everything is set up to add to the Falcon, maps set up, etc. Just gotta do a test run to make sure my bits are correct and everything is removed/placed as they should be on pick up.

After that... making them all work is the issue.

As for the chocobo, I know how to load a map and place it in "chocobo riding mode" the problem is I can't do that after loading the map in airship mode. There doesn't seem to be(or at least I can't find it) a place to reload the map after landing to place the party in chocobo map mode. I did manage to make it do some crazy donuts one time after "lift off" but nothing useful. Short of cutting into script that handles the actual airship landing(which I don't have) I'm not sure how else to pull it off short of some kinda chocobo whistle item thing.

As for the Magitek armor, I finally got around to adding the status Mtek to a character, just to get a taste of how painful this was gonna be. Well, it did place her on a magitek ride in battle(not out of battle but that was expected) and it did change her fight command over to Mtek. Its what else it did that's not cool at all.

Setting the status on Terra as head of party also made the whole party show up on armor(it didnt chage their fight command though, just her's).
It also changed her in battle palete to 50 shades of brown... okay probably just set it to pallete #1 if I was gonna make a guess. The rest of the party was fine.
battle glitches? Oh yeah, definatly. It seemed to be all graphical though, sometimes a critter would have the sprite and make the moves of the party membe in front of it in armor, sometimes on bigger critters it would only replace half their sprite with a mtek suit.
Yes, alot of full formations with issues. The only consistancy I noticed in that short time was the smaller groups weren't effected. I almost want to say it might be to do with how the status effect mtek is handled, more directly how it adds the graphics to the character. (Will have to find where this is done next and go from there).
That's just the things I'm beating my head on at the moment. Any suggestions or advice would be helpful of course.