Of Mice and Bailing out

[King Jareth]

If you are playing online and you get shot up, please please immediate run a quick thought trough your head-

"Is wrestling with this broken bird a worthwhile endeavour or just pure pride?"

If you can continue to fly and fight by all means recover and go about your dogfighting business but if you know you're just going to crash in 30 seconds from the damage (be honest now) then do the honourable thing and bail out.
You get back in the action faster and, just as importantly, the person who just hit you gets a kill for it.