I dislike the on map aircraft. For all the reasons that Dan stated. They simply do not work and add "cheesiness" to the game.
Nor do I like the bomber base attack units.
I just feel that someone decided to put chrome in with little thought to what it could do to PBEM.
Always seemed to be poorly vetted, or tested.
The old way works. Yes, even if a bunch of enemy wagons were hit, or, a stray attack on a friendly occurred, or even an attack was recalled. It was a random I could live with.
Had fun once when a player said that their plane could stick around and spot. I surrounded it with trucks and then attacked it with an engineer. Then assaulted it with a half track. Well my units could do it too?
HSL