For quite some time, there has been an issue in Air Realistic Battles where players become invulnerable on their own airfields.
When Player A is on their airfield, Player B can try to kill them, risking being shot down by anti-aircraft fire, but a problem arises.
At the moment of the attack, Player A bails out of their aircraft, thus avoiding damage — because any damage dealt to the abandoned aircraft is completely negated when Player A returns to the game, as they receive a new, undamaged aircraft.
This gives Player A an advantage: they become invulnerable to Player B’s attacks, and a significant number of pilots exploit this.
The player cannot be killed as long as they constantly bail out of the aircraft and get back into it. This continues indefinitely, until the attacking player flies away.
The fact that players can kill opponents who are on their own airfield is neither spawn camping nor something toxic, because it requires some skill and involves risks. In contrast, players who abuse this toxic exploit put in no effort at all — they simply press one button and become invulnerable.
This problem could be solved in several ways.
For example, a cooldown timer could be added before the player is allowed to bail out again, making it impossible to avoid damage in time.
Alternatively, the abandoned aircraft could remain tied to the player who left it, so that if it is destroyed, the player can no longer respawn and is instead credited with a death.
