Its an arcade feature, combat plays out in an arcade fashion because of it and ends up just being on the deck dogfights. I recently got into air sim because I thought it would be a refreshing, more realistic change. Nope, same old meta gameplay where the planes with better flight performance have a night and day advantage because avoiding radar missiles is just a case of flying in a straight line against the ground.
What a disappointment. Literally everybody just flies along the deck.