I did discover something recently about staying alive over enemy territory with a damaged kite. In one mission my Nieuport kite was damaged by staffel of DIIIs over the lines.
Unable to escape, I opted to land thinking it was better to stay alive, get captured and escape later. Well, I put her down and waited. The E/As circled overhead and then flow off.
Interesting!
So, I waited some more thinking that this might be a rouse and they'll return.
Nope, they had left the area and my kite seemed to be flyable again.
So, ground huging I returned to the nearest friendly aerodrome.....
Certainly a better option then getting captured.
I've used this a few times when things get too hot to increase my survival rate but I suppose
this could be considered cheating by RB3 purist....
I don't think I have ever landed in enemy territory to escape pursuit by EA. I certainly have in friendly territory many times. But it did happen in RL. Arthur Gould Lee recounts such an episode in "No Parachute", and I am sure I have read other accounts. But it was perilous. The risk of capture was certainly a factor, as one would have likely been observed from the ground.
In RB the ground is not populated, so unrealistic. Realism would call for something like a die roll to avoid capture, though I don't know what the odds would be.
