Hey,
My reasoning is "It's not an intended feature from SimplePVE. It wasn't written anywhere that SimplePVE is going to control PatrolHelicopter behaviour". I took that as a suggestion for a future feature of SimplePVE. It was changed to pending to not a bug, just for that. Don't take it as salt.
I can add that feature in SimplePVE. But it's just not that simple to do. It will require custom heli behaviour setup i think, and performance heavy. A lot of pve server uses custom helicopter plugin so it was never a question before, as the custom heli plugins already have this.
I will test it out and see if that's doable in the plugin, & I will let you know.