Ai behavior once hit

[SQB]

What I find totally unrealistic is the tendency for the AI to bail when *any* part of their aircraft is on fire! One elevator on fire? Time to bail. Seconds later the elevator fire goes out and a perfectly fine plane plummits into the water. It's a real hold-up for us offline players! The pilots should, on taking serious damage, attempt to crash land and only if the aircraft is uncontrollable should they bail.