Let me preface this by saying that I am very pleased with the Aces High comunity. I have flow WB, AW, and AH and I can say without qualification that the AH comunity has the least snobery and almost never do I hear "you stole my kill" or "get away its mine" which I did hear more than occasionaly in the other games when one person found what they considered to be an easy target (low slow plane for example). That is a completly different situation from the current problem of stealing kills by shooting helpless falling plane parts to get kills.
This type of kill stealing has become a very real problem in just the past week or so. I have better things to do with my ammo than pump 1000 rounds into a plane with no tail. While it is still a very small percentage of kills, it is growing. I've lost about 3 kills to this type of activity this tour (which out of my 30 kills is a very large number), and Ive seen my helpless victims chased to the ground at least twice that often.
Perhaps a flag needs to be set that once major damage has been inflicted on a plane, that kill credit is fixed untill the plane wither crashes or miraculously lands safely. Examples would be the tail being gone (elivators...ya cant fly without em), an entire wing being gone, or the engine being dead (not just oil/radiator but dead). This would solve the problem.
