So people are just abusing bailing out of planes or going to the menu and suicide to avoid giving kills to the person who shoots them down. This is ruining the experience of fighter pilots doing their jobs and getting next to no credit. Here is a screen of exactly that and it sucks.
Plane gameplay needs hard reworking. I always suicide after 5 seconds when my bomber is being shot at. Firstly becouse time to destroy a plane is just too long. Flying another minute, knowing you are surely going down is not fun at all. I’d be more usefull for my team spawning as a infantry squad earlier. It should be like in War thunder, where one accurate burst can destroy every plane. as it is now it is not uncommon to shoot whole ammunition into enemy aircraft and still not destroy it. ALSO, suicide SHOULD BE CREDITED AS A KILL. Easy fix, that would solve the problem.
Secondly, playing as bomber there is no way of defending yourself. Back gunners are still in develepment and obviusly you cant outmanouver a fighter. No way, am I spending couple of minutes waiting paitiently to get killed.
Off topic a little bit, but i highly appreciate that you spend whole game tring to get rid of bombers 
. Game shouldnt rely on people commiting to flying that much. In current form, game would be better of without planes.
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I second everything, that Omega said. This is an issue with the game, not with players. It is unreasonable to expect players to wait patiently and twiddle their thumbs, while their plane crashes ever so slowly. Of course I still try to steer my plane into the ground instead of just bailing, even though that might also take a while with busted control surfaces. But I’m a goody-two-shoes and I can hardly expect the same from other players, who are trying hard to win.
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I bail out when I’m damaged - but it isn’t to stop you getting a kill - it is to avoid wasting 10-15-20 seconds of time spiraling out of control and missing out on that time actually playing and gathering xp for my next squad.
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I def get the point of the slow painfull deaths which sucks your time out from being in the action. Bombers should have had a defense method of some sort before even being implemented. Maybe there is stuff in the works already and we are just not aware of it yet. I see it all the time bomb suicide respawn infantry for a few spawns, spawn a plane bomb suicide, repeat. Bad design currently.
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Yes the other day I was in a Normandy campaign when there were serial 110’s firing rockets then crashing straight ahead without pulling up from the attack firing cannon all the way - one after the other - die, another respawns, rinse and repeat…
This is counter intuitive since they confirmed parachutes are coming. Changing this just to have to change it to something else again is moving workload that could be used on something else when youre just going to change it back again. Time is money. Theres no reason to do this just to undo it again.
most of air engagments happen outside of ground battle area. Still i would rather suicide and credit that kill to my opponent than parachute 1 km outside play zone with my one crappy pilot and run for couple of minutes back. Its not like that one soldier will change the course of battle. Even with parachutes its better to just spawn as a specialized infantry. IMO parachutes are worst solution for that problem