Problem Getting Plane Guard Helo to land on DD at night.

[AG-51_Razor]

I have placed an SH-60B (stock AI) on the carrier deck with a "Follow" command and wypt #1 is landing aboard a screening Perry class DD. The follow command is terminated at the carrier's first waypoint, where the helo leaves the carrier and heads to the DD to land and shut down. This all works perfectly in the daytime but at night, once the carrier reaches its first waypoint, the helo flies to the DD and then just orbits a couple hundred meters behind it and will not land. Has anybody come across this before? Just out of curiosity, I changed out the DD for the LHA Tarawa to see if it had something to do with instrument landing systems or something like that. It made no difference. I am stumped. 

I have included the mission below. It is on the Persian Gulf map. The mission is very much still a WIP so no need to comment on any other aspect of it. Thanks in advance for any help or advice you may provide.

Retribution.miz

Edited January 5, 2024 by AG-51_Razor
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[AG-51_Razor]

Just a quick addendum to this; I found that the helicopter will come back to land on the SC at night. The pisser is, it lands in the forward part of the landing area thus blocking any fixed wing from recovering for the remainder of the mission since the helo doesn't disappear after shutdown.

[AG-51_Razor]

Another quick observation to this problem; I set the weather to below VFR conditions to see if it had anything to do with Case 1 vs Case 3 and the helo went right back to the screening DD as directed. I am very confused by this.