First let me apologize to Sandman for the ugly tone of my earlier replies. This is a sensitive subject to me because I often enjoy launching carrierborne ops . But all to often I log on to see that some higher ranking numbnuts has suicidally parked the cv's 5 miles in front of enemy bases . When this is the case I will do one of two things; I will change to a country that isn't misusing their airfields, or I will log off and try again later. And when I see complaints of "cv hiding" they are often referring to any activity other than the aforementioned suicide runs.
Let me see if I have this right now that I've cooled . Correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like Sandman was frustrated not becuase the cv was a safe distance from the enemy and they would not allow him to parade it around in front of the unfriendly shore batteries . But because it was moved so far away that it was basically taken out of the game completely, in effect it was "mothballed" (new dweeb term?). And players higher ranking than his self were enforcing this, and would not allow him to recommission it, not because they feared he would put it on a suicide course, but simply because rather than let anyone use it wisely, they decided to let no one use it at all . If this was the case I sympathize with Sandman completely. Not sure if I would've erupted with it's location on channel one but I probably would've changed country .