If you aren't near A B C, you aren't useful. Those are the main points that matter and require AA support because of the LBs and AH. The farther away you are, the less effective you are, no matter how good you are. You shouldn't be afraid to die in the AA, it basically doesn't have a respawn time and it goes fast. That's why I'm usually on their side when I'm in the AA. I will die, but not before I wipe out their airpower, and by the time they respawn I'm on their side again.
Anyway the admins are the ones who made the AA rules for gulmud, and they made them for a reason.