I don't get the don't generate chunks thing. I get what you mean about how it would save CPU, but how would you know where there are good amounts of resources or, more importantly, if you can land somewhere (eg. if there are trees in the way)?

You can send a airplane to fly in circles around a ...

One of your points states that a plane can only "take off and land from a runway"... so if you don't have a runway built, you can't go anywhere.

I get the pain of what you're saying, I'm dealing with this now on one of my maps but I think people need to rely less on using a radar which reveals so ...

TL;DR
With an airplane, player can setup a new colony far away from the origin in late game.


What ?
In late game, expanding by building rails and place miners are boring and painful. Building a colony in a much rich place far away from origin is more efficient.
It plays like a new game with ...