A forgotten fact about the He 115 is that it only had one gear built in "towards Britain".. so it was very easy to fly towards Britain and wreck havoc, but very hard to return to base unless following a British cruiser into home waters (think of a carrot on a stick). They basically only landed shortly to check in with mom and take a leak.. once in every two month.
In other words: this works like a charm!
"If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there." ~ Georgy Zhukov
I don't know, in Naval Air you should be able to move down in sea boxes or return to base.
paul I noticed this before but did not pay much attention to it figuring it was a program rule but just rechecked it and in all the other Naval phases of the first turn I cannot do anything with that plane.