Stuart wrote: When a orange (enemy) plane gets shot down or crashes, it return to action at the place they crashed or where shot down, in 1-2 seconds.
That, Stuart, is just a glitch.
It occurs now and then, but not very often..
One night, a couple of months ago, after one of the smaller updates, the same thing happened to everyone all the time: When shot down, you reappeared in the air after a few seconds.
It must have been just a small programming error that was quickly removed, - but in a dogfight it was kind of fun, - for a little while.
This glitch has reappeared a few times lately, but then only for one of the players at a time. I have not seen it happen exclusively to all of the players of one team only.
I agree with you that both parties should always be treated equally, and that's in fact the way the game is supposed to work.