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Originally Posted by KaleunMarco
this is a SWAG, but it is possible that the enemy aircraft detected you but had to get close enough to identify you as enemy.
then, in order to properly attack, it had to separate, climb and reposition for a proper attack.
that would be an SOP and may be the AI used in these situation.
just a SWAG, though, based on experience, training, etc.
do not deviate from your current practice of diving when detecting aircraft. 
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Valid point. Only thing is the usually identify and drop on first pass but will see if happens again sometime. lol don't worry, will still dive for planes, they alert other units, bring in more planes and sometimes patrol vessels, which can make contacting convoys difficult, spoil future attacks even when limiting player movement for a while due to heavy air presence.
Plus gunning it out with planes is rather unrealistic and in TMO near suicidal, the planes are difficult to shoot down (by design i recall Ducimus saying). Usually a desperation move if engage them with AA guns. Last time recall actually shooting at a plane other than the incident described above was off China coast in 1945, being chased away from a convoy, shallow waters so could not dive (35 ft of water ) and a night flyer showed up, radioed in by escorts obviously, the escorts were one knot slower than my boat, so could keep up but could not out run them. Then came the plane, 40 MM gun set it on fire, it eventually crashed but provided some harry moments with bombs landing close exploding, shells exploding from the escorts. lol eventually got away but one shell left a hole in boat, so had to head back home after.