If you want to survive?
Play like a coward... the best fighter pilots in the world were cowards.
however... if you want fun and challenging gameplay.
Fly like a moron. You jump in the middle and kill as many of them before they kill you, sooner or later you might actually come out alive.
Albert Ball was one of the finest fighter pilots who ever flew... yet he got killed because he kept being a hero when it was all about playing as a team... The Red Baron killed 80 aircraft... because he snuck up on them, killed them, and then ran away before anyone could get him. He is renowned as the deadliest ace of WW1 yet he would be ridiculed as a noob in AH2's community.
All about perception.

Spot on.... Furthermore is it the pilots fault that is running to the ack that the pilot who is chasing him dies because he flew into enemy ack? NO it is not. This strat is effective ONLY if enemy is dumb enough to fall for it.
A smart enemy will use "ALL" tools to kill his enemy, from trees at ground level during ACM, to Ho's, to field ack, to Btards, to HVAPS, right down to enemy's poor SA. There will always be those that call any number of these that I just listed as cowardly because they fall victim to it. I'm not even immune to the above and die everyday to it but I don't curse people out or call them cowardly, call them names etc. I accept that it is part of gameplay and move on.
