Reflected, just to add to the responses you've received already. As Cheesehawk suggested, get Teamspeak 3 and a cheap set of earphones + mike (if you don't have a set already). Doing this enhanced my online experience tremendously just as the others have commented above.
Before this I, too, got hit from behind by friendly fire. I got no response to my queries on chat, but I gave the benefit of the doubt and assumed my Spit looked like a 109 to someone desperate to make a kill. No big deal, but it does put a crimp in the enjoyment of the game to get fragged like that. Now I usually fly in the company of several others in continuous spoken communication and my enjoyment of Cliffs of Dover online has increased a ton. Too bad my kills haven't! LOL
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