This is kind of important and wasn't like this before.
From the films, it looks like a relatively recent update has done away with years and years of tweaking of the "connection code" in that it reminds me of what happens in WB1.1
It looks a lot like the threshold for your plane becoming a drone (for later return to flight) is being seen by your adversary before you, yourself, experience the full disco........and then you are suddenly back in your plane.
As it was before, your plane continued on it's course as last known by the flight sim using the control inputs last seen by the server.
Now, it seems you simply disappear even when your loss of connection is not very long only to reappear somewhere else.