The reason I ask is a matter of honour and morals. The other day in a particularly hectic defensive battle I noticed a red break away and head back to his base and I guessed he was out of ammo. I started to chase him firing at him almost the whole flight back , but due to his astonishing skill in avoiding my bullets he made it back and landed .I flew over him ,turned and came back down the runway , only just off the ground .i could have shot him easily ,just sat there reloading. But I did not I just flew over his head out of respect and in recognition of the fact that he had not taken the "easy" way out and crashed.
Then yesterday in a equally balanced defend the zep. game somebody announced that they were out of ammo and were going to crash ,obviously to avoid the time taken for the flight back to his base.
A lot of people on here are very vocal about what they think about sneakers ( personally I hate the derogatory way they use this word ) almost implying it is cheating , but is not deliberately crashing to gain an advantage the same thing.
I suppose it is all about how you see this game, is it about honour, respect and doing the right thing in regards to your fellow pilots or just another game and winning by any means is all that matters.