ORIGINAL: michaelm
The planes need to flown off to the base as the ship can't dock. But the group is set to not get pilots to man the planes[:D].
I ran the turn forward and the fragment gets removed during the turn.
Works fine if I give it 2 new pilots before transferring to base.
OK, cool. So I was missing a step. Thanks.
The reason I was missing that it needed pilots was because I've transferred unit
fragments before, planes with no pilots, to the location of the parent unit to recombine them. Which doesn't make sense, but since I could do that I figured I could transfer a full unit without pilots with no problem.
Oh, also - the same fragmentation thing happened when the ship was disbanded in port, IIRC.
All 2 planes were ready, so able to fly (albeit sans pilots...). No docking needed for that.