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For some units, when a patrol mission has any Time on Station set, those planes would never launch because the game thinks that they don't have enough fuel, even if the the distance to the station position is just a couple of miles.

Repeat steps:
1. Start Strike Tutorial 5 scenario.
2. Create two reference points right by the air base.
3. Create an AAW Patrol mission.
4. Put the two Prowlers on it.
5. Set any Time on Station.
6. Press "CREATE or UPDATE flightplans".
7. You'd get a message box saying that they cannot launch with the reason given: "Station is within maximum strike radius, however the currently selected flight profile requires too much fuel."

This seems to happen depending on the loadout. In the same scenario, F/A-18 #3-4 would not fly, just like the Prowlers, but #1-2 would.

This is new in 1544, 1527 works fine.

There seem to be a few 1544 patrol bugs reported already, maybe it's one of them too, but since this one is a little bit different, I've decided to report it just in case.

Hi, I'm able to reproduce this but it seems like its only happening because you're assigning an aircraft with a SEAD loadout to an AAW (air warfare) patrol. If you assign them to a SEAD patrol it works fine, or if you simply change the aircraft to one with an AAW loadout. We'll look into adding a warning or just allowing an override for situations like this, thanks.

Just double checked, this happens even with a Support mission, so at least that one should have no plane type limitations.

As for a AAW Patrol, while I was mostly using those mission to marshal planes, I think there can probably be some situations where you may plausibly want to have a SEAD-loadout plane doing AAW...

Yeah the support mission issue is definitely unintentional, I've reported it.

Thanks again for the reports, they're written very well and it makes it easy for us to identify and reproduce the problem