Never had a problem with photorecon, though I've only gotten it once, had to sneak into rabul and say hi to the carriers, so I did, the 4 DD patrols caught wind of me but after I sunk one and damaged the other they kinda lost their will to depth charge.
(did take one depth charging but the damage was light) Got to like 3kish took my pic but got closes still and fired a salvo of torps to take out one of the carriers (woo first carrier kill) and got the hell out of there (I was a s-18 class only 4 torps ready at any one time)
Though thinking about it I should of really sunk that other carrier because I literly got hounded by planes for about 2 weeks, I could of swore a carrier was chasing me. :rotfl:
It also must of developed into an airbattle because I started seing swarms of "survivors" on both sides on the way out.