catapult priority

[kunterbunt]

I am creating a single player mission in which I start dark and cold with F-14 and have 2 F-14 AI groups, composed each of 2 F14s, starting hot on the catapult (to show off the new supercarrier).

I wanted to have them take off as fast as possible behind each others. I had group 1 on catapult 1+2 and group 2 on catapult 3+4. This lead to 1 and 3 being launched very fast after each other, but then there was a long wait until the others where launched. Which means that both groups have to wait for the second aircraft to launch.

 

So, I moved the second aircraft of group 1 from catapult 2 to 3, thinking that this would launch the first group fast and then the second later.

But what happened is that only the first aircraft launched fast.

The launch priority on the supercarrier is a bit difficult to predict.

Any insights?