Two problems with planes:
1) In the stock game they show up way too much; they travel and attack in large groups, when in reality the big patrol planes usually travelled alone.
2) They are way to easy to shoot down; players have claimed as many as 20 PBYs or Sunderlands before finally being overwhelmed. In real life the sub was lucky to escape even one without damage.
The Airpower mod attempted to address both those problems, making aircraft sightings and attacks much fewer, and making the planes much tougher to shoot down. All of the supermods have included Airpower or something like it of their own devising, so you shouldn't see them as much.
Also, it is an often-reported bug that if you are travelling at a time compression of 1024 or higher it can interrupt plane sightings; either you never see any at all or you see one right after it attacks you! Luckily I'm using a version of Airpower, and the few times I've been attacked so far they missed.
The only thing I can really suggest is travel at a lower time compression.
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