I guess it depends on what you see Aces High as - a shooting game, or a combat flight simulator.
To me it's a combat flight simulator, and i'm trying to fly as realistic as possible. So my first priority is to survive. If i'm crippled, i try to limp home, bail or ditch. I don't like to "go down with my ship"

And when i bail, i always opens my chute as low as possible, due to folks like ack-ack. I've been playing Warbirds for over a year, and was killed in my chute ONE time, but after playing Aces High for a few weeks, killed TWICE!
Man, i HATE chute-killers...
