Aircraft not landing back on carrier

[karpftj]

I'm having problems with at least a couple of scenarios:
HDS5 2.0, carriers move north
HDS1 10.0, land of fire and ice
where aircraft in formation over the carriers don't land when they run out of fuel; they just ditch.

This doesn't seem to happen when the carrier groups are MY groups, but the enemy keeps losing aircraft this way. Since they're losing the aircraft that might give them some chance of surviving my strike aircraft, clearly this gives me an unfair advantage.

This happens with 2008.044, 2008.024, and with the previous version that ran (sort of) on Windows. I'm using Windows Vista, but this also happened on Windows XP.

Thanks.

Tom

[TonyE]

Please zip and send a save showing the behavior to hc3@harpgamer.com (i.e. a save from 10 seconds before an AI formation patrol falls out of the sky).  That said I believe your issue is already addressed in the patch (the problem being related to aircraft that go slower as altitude increases instead of faster).