smurphy

If you're a good pilot it's not hard to survive being shot down in a chopper. As for planes, I would love for some sort of damage reduction for emergency landings, ie instead of just turning to a flaming wreck (unless you sustain MASSIVE damage) you lose control/functionality depending on where you've been hit, and if you can land belly down at a low angle and not crash into anything, possibly survive. Certainly for the prop planes, I imagine they could go down fairly hard without killing everyone. It's not as if they're got the massive forces supersonic jets have acting on them, you'll be going a lot slower when you hit the ground, and the generally wider and straighter wingspan gives them a little more lift while gliding.

I get CTDs every so often (though it was happening within 2mins earlier today), and I'm on XP Pro.

I get CTDs every half hour or so. It freezes for a few seconds, sound begins to loop, screen goes black, the Windows "Send error report" screen, desktop. And now it's just started doing it every few minutes. Very annoying. I've updated video card, patched it etc Running Windows XP Pro, AMD Athlon 6000+ x2 Edit: Sound the same as mine orlok