I noticed while playing on the XGN Dedicated server (realistic) the following bizarre behaviour, witnessed by all players on the map.
A single UH-60 on being shot down resulted in this parafest.
It is almost like every clients recording of the incident has been mirrored accross the network in a sort of echo, so of the 16 players in the game, we got 16 x 2 pilots ejecting = 32 parachutes, even though there are a damn site more than that!
If replicated, I will post again.