Jayhawk, I don't think I've run into your group, but from what I've read on the boards my guess would be that you guys run at mid to high alt, level bomb and work to rtb as many as your planes as possible. If this is true, then you are using the planes as intended, you are creating the opertunity for combat due to the time you must take to set you approach routes for your runs as well as your exit routes to rtb.
I must be flying at the wrong times I guess. I fly Saturday afternoon into the evening most weekends. I am sure that in that time I will see one GV battle attacked by a dive bombing hvy buff. I will see at least 3 people bail from perfectly good bombers. I will see a half dozen bombers not bother to grab any alt and hold to luck to get their bombs off before they are killed.
Maybe the week day players are a better class, but I know I'll see the above pretty much every weekend without fail. I know it sounds like I like to whine about this stuff, but it what I see, and when I put those pieces together and compare them with "the old days" I see a very definite decline in the game play, and so the whine.
Maybe I'm seeing things wrong, but why was the radar changed? Maybe because too many people were avoiding fights? I'm just saying.