Harbinger here.
That was some awesome fun I had today. I'm really lucky that my first MP experience is such a good one.
In the rookie terrorists mission I only crashed once and did an emergency landing successfully after losing right engine, although I wasn't able to make it back to the FARP.
The second mission was hard, we all got shot by anti air multiple times.
I especially loved the SAM that killed Hijack aka Rusty. To me, who was on the ground at that time, the missile seem to be going really high, since we warned each other not to go high, I said something like "That missile is going nowhere" on TS, and right when I finished, big fireball and Hijack is history.