Caelum a bit cheap?

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BesucherXia said:
Flying PD has its own edge.
Most experienced players will set order with retreat for their scouts at the border provinces, and flying PD is the best way to hunt them down at battlefield before they escape.

Besides, can someone clarify if the flying PD also get the patrol bonus?

I am 99% certain they do not get the patrol bonus because I believe the game counts them as the pd value worth of generic units until combat ensues, then the appropriate units are loaded. If they received the bonus, it would mean the game was storing an instance of that unit, which would carry affliction, experience and have to be tracked by the game towards the unit cap. Also, if units did receive the bonuses they normally get, certain nations would be at a severe disadvantage concerning catching scouts, spies, assassins and so forth.