Write this down:
CT staff have NO ability to modify the FM of ANY aircraft in the AH stable. Only HiTech and/or Pyro can do that.
Whatever differences you think you see in the CT vs the MA are your perceptions, not actual fact.
CT staff can modify:
sunrise/sunset
wind speed, alt, etc.
move fleets with a click of a mouse
weather conditions
limit plane availablity
limit or enable manned guns
limit or enable GV's
modify structure kill loads and modify their rebuild times
modify numbers of troops required to take a base
Basically, everything YOU can do offline, or in a H2H arena you create, is what the staffers can do. Can YOU change the FM of a plane offline?
Not a lot staffers can do to this "cartoonish" game, other than whatever HTC allows them to do, they just have the authority to modify them online in a public arena.