Originally Posted by Mobius007

The survivability would be very low obviously, maybe giving most of the passengers quite a lot of damage, whilst killing others. Those who survive can try to crawl out/ heal themselves others, before the chopper does explode (if damage was great enough) While spinning the screen could blur, a la suppression mode, with a loud audible warning message repeating. To me this would add a great deal of immersion from a tiny improvement (tiny in my mind, maybe not to the Devs).

There are several levels of damage, the final one (I think) being a flaming chopper that has anywhere between 5-10 seconds left before the whole thing goes up in a lovely little cooking fire. I really like the idea of adding those beeping attitude/altitude warnings, even if its not about to crash.

Originally Posted by Mobius007

Add damage to the main rotars as well, greatly reducing the pilots ability to fly (this maybe already in PR, but I haven't seen it).

There is a damage level where the chopper seems to be working but generates 0 lift. You can throttle it all the way up and still not take off, its quite amusing to attempt to land one. I once saved an MEC transport chopper alive by "landing" it and waiting for an engineer to drive a support truck for repairs. It just depends on where you get hit.

Originally Posted by Mobius007

Planes
As most of you know the A-10 is a flying tank, able to land/maneuver with a good deal of the plane missing. Granted, where an Air-to-Air or Surface-to-Air missle hit determines the amount of damage, but shouldn't always completely destroy the A-10.

In the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile (and presumably its russian counterpart, the R-73(NATO: AA-11) Use a warhead that works like a fragmentation grenade, because simple explosives would require a direct hit. It throws hot shrapnel at very high speeds into the enemy aircraft, damaging hydraulics, control surfaces, and perhaps (if you drew a really short straw your squishy little pilot body) An A10's hull is strong, but not invulnerable, so a hit or two of screaming hot bits of metal ripping though critical systems will start to break things really quick. I know it was built to land with a cockpit, two drops of fuel, half an engine and a roll of duct tape, but that would make the plane supremely overpowered in PR. (The mod is 3/4 realism and 1/4 balance with engine constraint and gameplay balance)

Originally Posted by Mobius007

Maybe have the plane be damaged where maneuverability is greatly hampered, or causing the plane to have an uncontrolled dive (we've all seen this in movies).

That it does currently.

I really appreciate and sympathize with your interest and I can tell you have some good ideas churning around.
Keep 'em coming.